• The New Mexico health department reported 30 measles cases in the state on Friday, an increase of 20 cases from its previous count.

    I don’t think that means the “30 Measles cases a day” that the headline is showing. More “We’re up to 30 cases in the state, 20 more than the last time I let you know.” As of yesterday, there are only (<-what a time to be alive) 222 cases in the country.

    • aramis87
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      57 months ago

      The headline means, “one day after the second US measles death in a decade, New Mexico reports 30 cases of the measles”.

    • @Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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      77 months ago

      Tbh it doesn’t feel satisfying to think about with children being involved. At least they won’t have time to become woke because unlike real life threatening diseases that’s obviously bad.

      • @jimmy90@lemmy.world
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        57 months ago

        watching their children die might be the only thing that snaps them out of it

        a horrific price of freedom

        • @Cheems@lemmy.world
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          87 months ago

          My aunt watched her husband die on a ventilator in a room with a bunch of other people on ventilators behind a glass window and still denies covid did it, and is still staunchly maga