Irish Examiner View: Chelsea carnival will be virtual

The scene at the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show.

As plague years went, 1625 was, for the people of London, pretty much run of the mill. Fewer than 42,000 of them died. Forty years later, when London’s Great Plague peaked an estimated 100,000 people — then almost a quarter of the city’s population — died in 18 months.

London’s population today is just shy of 9m. Do the maths and be consoled.