When questioned about a growing measles outbreak in West Texas that has claimed at least one life, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told reporters "we have measles outbreaks every year."

When questioned about a growing measles outbreak in West Texas that has claimed at least one life, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told reporters “we have measles outbreaks every year.”

      • running_ragged@lemmy.worldEnglish
        631·
        2 days ago

        Outbreak also had a technical meaning.

        Outbreak: When there are more disease cases than what is usually expected:

        • For a given time (e.g., within 2 weeks)

        • Within a specific location (e.g., linked by institution, affiliation, exposure, small geographic area)

        If outbreaks were normal, it wouldn’t be an outbreak.

          • running_ragged@lemmy.worldEnglish
            131·
            2 days ago

            Fair. But that is using a different definition for outbreak that whats shown on CDCs definition page.

            • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 day ago

              Are you surprised by the lack of consistency or frustrated that we have to live with it?

          • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 day ago

            Because of two datapoints? You need more than two years, one of which isn’t even done yet, to make that kind of determination.

          • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
            444·
            2 days ago

            That is a problem Democrats have. They have a holier-than-thou complex and then even when they are proven wrong, they refuse reality because they can’t imagine ever being wrong.

            • SamboT@lemmy.worldEnglish
              42·
              2 days ago

              I was with you in your other comments and then you had to generalize an entire population of people. Hivemind idiots on the internet doesnt mean you can do that.

              • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                24 hours ago

                Not every Democrat is a hivemind idiot, but a big enough percentage that It contributed to their loss. Harris was one as well. Biden, “you ain’t black” definitely.

                • SamboT@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  4·
                  24 hours ago

                  You have no idea the distribution of idiocy between Republicans and Democrats give me a break. Its all vibe based on your specific newsfeed.

                  With a constantly changing narrative for each party im not sure how people even associate themselves with either party outside of voting for president/congress/senate. The more specific you get the more irrelevant it becomes.

      • the_q@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        23 hours ago

        The point is the number keeps going up as the antivax crowd continues to seep into positions of power like RFK.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      2 days ago

      Longer that that I think. I’m 54 and am just now learning what measles is, hadn’t much of a clue. Disease that makes kids spotty and not my fucking problem because we were all vaccinated? Kinda like grandma’s smallpox scar. “Fuck is that?!”

      • Snowclone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 hours ago

        I remember it being really strange to me as a kid that there were a lot of film and TV shows where a kid would get either the measles or mumps and then have padded cheeks, and I had no idea what these illnesses were and never heard of anyone getting them. I think my mom at some point said it was more common in the 60s or 70s. That was back in the 80s mostly they really don’t even show up in any 90s written stuff, and I’m sure a lot of it was reruns from the 60s or old teen comedies, (not the sexy or unedited for TV kind)

        These fuckers really want to bring back the 50s polio and all.