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Before COVID-19, Chinese Used Face Masks to Cover Statues

The COVID-19 outbreak has made face masks a part of our daily lives. In China, face masks were used for an interesting reason prior to the pandemic — to cover the faces of statues as a sign of protest against China’s high levels of pollution. Statues and face masks It was around 2014 that the ...

Max Lu

Two statues with face masks.