History buff compares Canada's new travel restrictions to the 1918 Spanish Flu lockdowns: 'We are repeating the exact same pattern of border panic and ghost ports'
Amid the latest wave of travel restrictions to Canada, a Harvard-trained historian is drawing eerie parallels to the 1918 Spanish Flu, when Canada slammed its borders shut, only to see the virus proliferate through military troop movements and domestic rail. 'The 1918 playbook is identical to today's: close the ports, blame the foreigner, then watch the second wave hit harder from within. We're not breaking the chain—we're just repeating history with better PR.' The comparison is lighting up X feeds, where users are arguing that Canada's quarantine policies are a mirrored echo of a century-old misstep.