Louisa Jordan’s working career was mainly in care and nursing on the East and West of Scotland. She later enlisted with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service in December 1914, after the start of the First World War.  She joined the first Serbian unit and looked after war wounded soldiers until the outbreak of a typhus epidemic in 1915, when she took charge of a typhus ward in Serbia.  

Washington Post July 14th article that appeared under the heading:

“Brits remain reticent to wear facemasks, despite having the highest Coronavirus death toll in Europe”

On reading this—before I even read the article—I could feel my hackles rising on two counts…