The Plague Doctor knew about face masks before for the Coronavirus!

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The Plague Doctor knew about face masks before
for the Coronavirus!
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• Face masks take on an entirely different meaning
  as the Venice Carnival clashes with the spread of
  the Coronavirus
• With the Venice carnival due to start in two
  weeks (8th February to 25th February 2020) there
  is a back drop of confusion over the search for
  face masks.
• Whether you are Googling it, or asking Bing or
  Yahoo, the term face mask has taken on a whole
  different meaning.
• If you are concerned about the Coronavirus then
  search for N95 respirator masks, if you are going
  to the Venice Carnival, or a Venetian Ball, then
  search for Venetian masks !
• With the Coronavirus escalating, the press are
  reporting a run on face masks in the US, UK and
  China, with many outlets reporting shortages of
  these N95 respirator masks.

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• In a move that Donald Trump would be proud of,
  Taiwan have introduced a month long ban on the
  export of these masks after fears of supply
  shortages arose. With the virus accelerating this
  is a mega ugly health trade war that no one
  wanted to see.
• We, at Just Posh Masks, are also seeing a run on
  its face masks, but this is because the Venice
  Carnival for 2020 is about to start. We are not,
  as yet, in a trade war with Italy, and we are
  hoping that, by the time the Carnival starts, the
  full face Venetian character mask, with full
  Venetian costume, will still be the order of the
  day.
• Plague Doctors were medical physicians who
  treated victims of the Plague. During the 17th
  century doctors would wear a face mask with a
  long nose, which was filled with aromatic herbs
  and spices. It was thought that these sweet
  smelling herbs protected the doctor from the
  spread of the plague, which was widely considered
  to be airborne.

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• The N95 respirator masks are simpler, and more
  advanced than the iconic Plague Doctor mask.
  These textile masks are thought to filter out
  over 90 of particles in the air and are,
  currently, recommended for the recent outbreak of
  the Coronavirus.
• Those that know the history of this long nose
  Doctor mask will know that there are some
  similarities with the current day Coronavirus and
  the Plague. Then, as now, the medical world did
  not know how this virus was being spread. It was
  thought that wearing a mask would contain, and
  hopefully stop, this becoming a pandemic.
• We now know that the Plague was not airborne and,
  at the time of writing, we still do not know if
  the Coronavirus, like the SARS virus in 2003, is
  airborne, or how it is even being spread.
• Whilst mask technology today far exceeds that of
  the 17th century, and no one would argue that the
  N95 respirator masks are better at protecting you
  than the plague doctor masks were, we can all be
  forgiven for thinking that today there is a
  feeling of déjà vu.

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