Abstract
The arrival of COVID-19 led to a search for historical analogies and lessons which mislead rather than inform. A more appropriate response is to use our present experience to inform our historical enquiries by drawing attention to issues that have been marginalised or ignored, such as consent or resistance to vaccination, and the changing frontier between human and animal species. The nature of evidence on the lived experience of and policy responses to COVID is considered, and the ways in which policy success and failure might be assessed and interpreted. Crises can lead to a radical change in social assumptions and policies, or to the survival of the status quo. The outcome in the case of COVID-19 will depend on which narrative dominates, of failure and political retribution or success and affirmation.
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