“Through knowledge, patience and science we can prevail.” —Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War. The leader of Athens the strongest city-state in Greece Pericles’ unwitting retreating all the Athenians behind city wall to fight Spartan.

Plaque was spread. Athens was not defeated by The Spartan but mistake of their leader.
Lockdown, vaccination, masking-up, social distance ...etc., all the preventing practices will do the good or harm really is questionable. Only time and many innocent lives will tell. Good lesson reading History of the Peloponnesian War—陸譯：伯羅奔尼撒之戰<==