New coronavirus pandemics like this aren’t novel. It’s thought many of the boring common cold coronaviruses we don’t think much of started as an outbreak sometime in the past crossing animal-human boundaries

One common cold coronavirus that circulates around had a common ancestor in 1890. Suspiciously timed with the Russian “Flu” pandemic of 1890-1891[1]

(Not that we can just discount the Wuhan lab theory, but a naturally occurring pandemic like this not that weird historically)

1 - https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-the-coronavir...