We are not even remotely close to uncharted territory. What’s new is the irrational panic this time around. We didn’t even begin to act in 2009 until after the first 1000 people were already dead in the US.

This virus is following the exact same flow as previous ones. Death rate is dropping, they already are using new treatments based on antibodies of people that beat it, etc.

This is serious - but the reaction to it has been dramatically overblown compared to the 2009 pandemic that killed orders of magnitude more people 20% of US was infected.

...being sent out in the first 5 months. Obama declared a public health emergency on April 26 (first case in the US confirmed April 15th) and declared the national emergency in October.