Last one to post in this thread wins!
Doctors wore them during the plague. My daughter bought one as a Halloween mask in 2019... suddenly now they are in vogue. And a lot of the kids on the local HS wrestling teams wear Ushankas at the tournaments between rounds to keep warm.
Bubonic Plague: Why a Doctor Invented the First Face Mask | by Regina Clarke | Medium
love the painting of Bruegel in there (thats Bruegel the elder)
little known fact, i was born some 4 miles from Bruegel (the city, not the elder)
however, the title of your article is dead wrong
in fact, it was Moses, by the Word of God, who wrote in Leviticus 13:45
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
of course, this is the sensible face mast, that you put on an infected person, not the kind of freedom robbing, liberty infringing, mind controlling face mask that we see today, this is the kind that actually helps prevent the spread of disease