Perhaps somewhere we could take lessons from with regards to public health policy.
Unfortunately, no country had ever dealt with anything like this. /s
And yet there seems to be a surprisingly little amount of "What choices did Asian countries make in 2002, 2003, and 2004? Which were effective / ineffective? What were their economic impacts?"
Instead, at the highest Western government levels, there seems to be an assertion that no one has ever faced anything like this before, and the choices that need to be made are without precedent.