“Please make sure in the shower that your mouth is not open,” Jim Craig, senior deputy and director of health protection at the Mississippi Department of Health...
Specifically for Jackson, where they have been having serious water problems for a month.
(This is not in the linked article, but in several others on the topic)
No, I did not miss that. If it's not in the linked article, the implication is that we all just know to shower with our mouth closed. 2.9 million people, vs 149k.
By "miss" I wasn't implying you can't read or something, just that this national news item wasn't something you've seen yet. A common way to express that is "you missed it" or "i missed that".
Let me rephrase my first sentence:
You many not have seen this yet then...
[snip some unnecessarily stuff in light of edit below].
edit: I just realized and maybe you also hadn't seen yet, the linked article is a summary of a video story. Additionally, the summary has been updated to include more information specifying Jackson and the title has been updated since I first looked, I suspect there is much more info now than when you first looked..
Are you not understanding that I live in Mississippi, and I resent the implication that an entire state just has filthy water, because of one city with an awfully young man at the helm?
If even a small village in my country didn't have access to clean drinking water for more than a week I'd demand some unfortunate public official to commit seppuku. It's having standards.
It's because of massive flooding and a damaged treatment plant. The governor declared a state of emergency. 150k people have been under orders to boil app water since July 29th.
Having lived in Europe, this feels exactly like the kind of reporting they love. “Did you hear what happened in the US?” Or “did you see what happened in the US?” It’s a big damned place and I only personally care about certain parts of it, so no, I probably didn’t.
The OP implies that this is common to everyone in the state, and I believe it to be nonsense. I know about what's going on in Jackson, but I can assure you, the issues with the Pearl River flooding a treatment plant are limited to the city of Jackson.
Where I live, they shut off the water if you don't pay your bill.
Jackson isn't handling things very well. The governor is kind of a turd. There's blame to go all around.
So were the streets of San Francisco the last time I was there. Has gov Nonsense fixed that sanitary problem yet?
The supply chain problem is a time bomb for many water supplies across the country. Even basic maintenance / upgrades have major problems with getting parts. So don't just point fingers at the "hicks" and think your water supply is safe or will stay that way.
“Please make sure in the shower that your mouth is not open,” Jim Craig, senior deputy and director of health protection at the Mississippi Department of Health...
Specifically for Jackson, where they have been having serious water problems for a month.
(This is not in the linked article, but in several others on the topic)