Just so we are all clear that nothing changes. This, on the 1832 cholera epidemic. And, still in plus ça change mode, the government wanted you to be damn sure if you got cholera it was all your fault, not theirs.

Wow, this @guardian article on Mary Stuart is wild. This is well out of my period, and even I know it's bollocks (klaxon: historian technical term). Mini thread.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/j… 1) Mary Stuart's 'exquisite gifts of statecraft'? Whenever Mary was presented with a political choice, you could absolutely bet she'd make the wrong one.
2) Her 'ruthless expediency'? Interesting new way of saying 'flailed wildly from crisis to crisis.

As a Canadian, I hear a lot of complaints in the winter in the UK: 'If you can clear snow in Canada, why can't our government get it's act together.' So, children, gather round while I tell you a little story. Montreal has a population of 3 million. It snows approximately 60 days a year, totalling about 200 cm of snow. Each major snowfall costs $1m a year to clear away. And this is why.