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Original 'Rosie the Riveter' Makes Masks to Fight COVID-19

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 14 2020, @04:23PM   
from the riveting-drama dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

Original 'Rosie the Riveter' makes masks to fight COVID-19:

At age 94, Mae Krier is back on the front lines — hard at work, helping her country.

One of the nation's original "Rosie the Riveters" employed by Boeing in Seattle during World War II, she built B-17 and B-29 bombers to help support the war effort decades ago.

Now she's fighting a different war, as her still nimble fingers turn out face masks to prevent spread of the deadly coronavirus.

"People say to me, "You helped win WWII and now you are helping our country win this battle over this virus. These are nice things to hear," Krier said.

She makes the mask like the red polka dot bandanas she also makes to remind people of the Rosies, those women who toiled in manufacturing plants with their heads wrapped in bandanas so their hair wouldn't get tangled in the machinery they used to make supplies for the military serving overseas.

They were depicted by a World War II era poster of "Rosie the Riveter" created by J. Howard Miller in 1943.

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• Re:Sad that Masks have become Political Re:Sad that Masks have become Political (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @06:49PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @06:49PM (#1021414)

  The US isn't the only country like this. The same bullshit is happening in Brazil, where Jair Bolsonaro is a Trump wannabe. Americans and Brazilians aren't stupid. The real problem is that both of our countries have been infested by a cancer, the far right, which is driving these absurd policies. We can either let this cancer destroy our countries or we can collectively decide that the far right should never get close to power again.

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• Re:Sad that Masks have become Political Re:Sad that Masks have become Political (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @07:40PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @07:40PM (#1021447)

  I dunno about Brazilians but the Americans prove they are stupid almost every day.

  And there's Florida... A place where a guy punches an ATM because it gave too much cash...

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  • Re:Sad that Masks have become Political (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @01:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @01:01AM (#1021596)

    And there's Florida... A place where a guy punches an ATM because it gave too much cash...

    That's understandable. The fuckers keep track and they know who got the extra. It's a pain in the ass to have to go back during bank hours to return it, but if you don't they will charge you with robbery.

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