This is not unprecedented

My alma mater, Williams College, just sent out an update to alums about canceling commencement and reunion events this summer.

This line from the college president’s message caught my eye:

My heart goes out especially to the class of 1970, whose own senior spring term was canceled due to protests over the bombing of Cambodia, and who are now having their 50th reunion disrupted by a global pandemic.

So yes, some of this coronavirus situation is unprecedented — but maybe only for my generation, or people in the USA, or other specific…