But it’s not poison…?
The article I posted said there wasn’t lead poisoning.
That’s not what it said. It said the term “poisoned” inaccurately characterized the reality. It did admit that lead is a powerful neurotoxicant, that no amount of lead is healthy, and that lead in the water of certain homes was ridiculously high. But then it went on to say that reports regarding the CDC’s “reference level” of lead made people assume said reference level was a level beyond which people are poisoned and thus incur irreversible brain damage, which is grossly inaccurate; and that the majority of people in Flint didn’t have very high lead levels at all—especially compared to the whole country 20, 40, or 60 years ago.
It didn’t say there wasn’t poisoning; it said the information given needed to be more informative about the actual facts and what they really mean because the event wasn’t as bad as it sounded.
…I still don’t understand what a reference level is.