Could have sworn that what happened in Flint was worse that the average lead problem. Perhaps I am wrong.
That’s a point of the article: measuring the lead levels people actually had and not only what was feared to have happened.
At the time there were measurements in some homes that were ridiculously high. And fault was appropriately placed on public officials who made a hasty and ill-informed decision to switch water supplies. But statistically, this showed that there was not significantly elevated lead levels in people.
A problem identified in the article is that we don’t focus on the fact this is a national issue. We fixate on these singular events with a single identifiable decision but ignore the same issue as it happens all over all the time.
It’s the way people pay close attention to mass shootings but not the many other gun deaths.
When problems are big and diffuse I think many people have a harder time getting a handle on them.