By the skin of their teeth

The bad news: there was a major dental convention in Vancouver in early March. Someone with COVID made a brief appearance on March 5th. Now the 15,000 dental delegates have to go into "self-isolation" for two weeks. All elective dental procedures across BC are cancelled.

The good news? Younger daughter's dental cleaning got moved from March 11th to March 4th, the day before the contaminated delegate showed up in Vancouver. Whew.

Demeter's dental cleaning, scheduled for 1:30 this afternoon, got cancelled at 12:30. Double whew.

In other news, Demeter decided, given that her afternoon had suddenly been freed up, to drop by the library, where she picked up five books. A couple of hours later, all Victoria branches closed indefinitely.

This is like watching a car crash in slow motion.