I'm not so sure about that, and I'm also questioning whether there was any type of recession in 1987.  I'm aware that the stock market plunged in October of that year, but it rebounded relatively quickly and the bull market didn't implode until April 2000.  That crash in 1987 wasn't even related to the economy if I remember correctly--there were a lot of folks blaming it on programmed trading.

And yeah, unemployment has spiked but there's a very clear cause for that--a lot of businesses have been forced to shut down.  That's not a permanent thing, though.  With an outbreak like with this strain of coronavirus, there's no way the whole world needs to be on lockdown for an extended period of time.  IMO there's been a lot of overreaction to this thing, though the consequences have been quite real.