Athens Disease vs. Covid-19

The disease that hit Athens during the Peloponnesian War was Typhus. This plague was when all the people of Athens had to stay inside the walls. Pericles told everyone to stay inside and couldn't have known disease would break out. He was just going to let Sparta destroy everything outside the city walls and the walls were very strong so they wouldn't get inside. Everyone was trapped together and one day they got a shipment in from the port of Piraeus of supplies. There was one extra thing that came with it, and it was a disease. They were all very close together inside the walls so this disease spread very fast and it couldn't be stopped. It killed 1/3 of the population including Pericles. The Coronavirus started in China and spread very fast because of all the people. Some people didn't know they had it and they traveled all over the world spreading it. It made its way to America and everyone was still going places, going to work, grocery stores, and going to school. It spread more here and some people again didn't know they had it and it spread again. If we still went to school now and someone got the Coronavirus it would spread very fast just like it spread inside Athens walls. We would all be stuck inside the school not knowing someone had it. So the virus' are both similar because they have both been spread quickly throughout large groups off people and cannot be stopped.