Ami AngelwingsPatient zero is a misleading term with problematic origins to start with, but this is especially weird because she didn't spread anything, she was just the first hospitalized, it was spread in the food, obviously, because *it's botulism*
donkey herder, fowl friend@ami_angelwings she was the index case, not the patient zero! It’s almost like some of these reporters didn’t spend far too many nights diving down various disease wikiholes, smdh
@donkeyherder given that the Toronto Star has openly said it uses AI to help write articles, I've been wondering if this is because of AI pattern matching that patient zero is used in these articles without understanding how botulism is spread (but a human could also just do this too, after all humans were the ones who started and spread the whole "patient zero" misnomer in the first place)
@ami_angelwings oooh, how I hate your clever insight. I bet you’re right! 😡