75 new cases, 579 total.
Actually looking forward to the dentist visit this afternoon because the toothache woke me at 1 am again and I don’t think so many pain-killers are good for the system. I was also getting these images in my mind from the movie “Castaway” where Tom Hanks deals with a bad tooth using an ice skate. [I see he had the virus too]
We got mail at 11:00 am while I was out re-locating a security camera - no excuse not to do all those things we’ve been wanting to do around the house. I lifted it out with pliers, emailed myself some photographs so I could read it, and then moved it to the garage rubbish bag with the pliers.
I looked up the Spanish flu this morning and apparently 17 million people died from it, some say 50 million is probably more accurate while others say maybe 100 million. The reason it’s called the Spanish flu is because it appears to have hit them harder, but reports say it is because they were the only country that reported accurately while others wanted to keep morale up during the war times so weren’t entirely accurate in their reports about deaths due to the virus. let’s not cll this one the Italian flu, let’s all report correctly.
Let’s go with an average of around 50 million deaths with a population of 1.8 billion back then. That would give us 150 million with 7.5 billion people today. One article suggests it may be deadlier than the Spanish flu.
Before my dental appointment I got bored and decided to modify my umbrella and make an “Aggressive social distancing” video.
The visit to the dentist is over, for today. A course of anti-biotics will help determine whether I have an abscess or not plus the possibility that I may need root canal treatment before the crown is fitted. Hamilton emergency dentists are very busy at the moment though previously I never even knew about them.
