Letter: Writer likens masks to lights during WWII’s Blitz on London
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Can you imagine during the Blitz at night over London by the Nazis with a whole lot of people going, “I will turn on my lights when I feel like?”
That is what happens now with not wearing masks.
Ernst Walder GOODYEAR
Editor’s note: During World War II, officials across England enacted “blackout” requirements in which all manmade lights were to be extinguished or covered nightly to make it more difficult for German pilots to find targets on the ground during air raids.
