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·
        1 day 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·
          1 day 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·
            20 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·
              20 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.