A video demonstration of how mercury destroys brain neurons,

[truedelphi]

7. Well that was not my intent.

Plenty of people have suffered on account of mercury. Modern Day sewage treatment plant operators, and scientists who work in that field, women who remodeled their homes during the later part of the Nineteenth Century when mercury was in wallpaper.

And one of the things about amalgam fillings: it became quite the thing to have the fillings removed. So people rushed into their dentists' offices demanding to have their mercury fillings taken out. So the dentists would take out several fillings at a time, and the teeth would be ground into oblivion with drills, so the patients, the dentist and the staff all had that stuff floating in the air around them. I had several acquaintances who had that done, and were ill for some time afterwards. Like you point out, a filling only outgasses a bit (maybe two percent or so per year), but when it all goes into the air at once, it becomes a problem.