A pretty compelling argument here.

[Burney]

But before Jez, we never really used to do that sort of thing here. We always went for the Papists. And that's one part of our Reformation exceptionalism I fully support. Like the fact that putting the word of God over artistic frippery is why we have no Mozart or Caravaggio, but do have Shakespeare and Austin.

I say we burn a few papists to see whether that defeats the virus, like the good old days.

We definitely did do that here. Clifford's Tower, St Hugh of Lincoln. The only reason they didn't get done over during the Black Death here was because they'd been kicked out in 1290 and not allowed back until Cromwell's Protectorate. Some blamed the French for the 1665 plague, but generally the papists didn't get blamed for plagues. Other things, yes (Titus Oates, etc), but not plague.