TIL that there was no evidence that taco Bell was spreading the killer diarrhea, but when they heard it about they automatically assumed it was them and started changing stuff ๐
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Assumption can be error-prone, highlighting the need for transparent data and auditable decision-making processes.
Wondering how people distinguished between lettuce diarrhea and regular taco bell diarrhea ๐ค
It's because this is normally spread from sewage getting into contaminated drinking water.
Or water contaminated by sewage being used to irrigate vegetables that gets eaten raw.
These are really the only ways it could spread the way it is.
So pretty reasonable for first suspicion to be leafy greens used by fast food restaurants or sold at grocery stores.
Things that gets added fresh instead of being cooked.
"No it wasn't just the crunchwrap. I expect what the crunchwrap does. This one is *different*. ๐ซช"

Didn't they trace the infection back to them specifically?
This is not what I heard but who the fk knows
It really isn't that big of a deal anymore. John Snow did it with cholera in the 1850s. We are pretty good at finding sources now. Especially when politicians aren't in the fucking way. That's usually where healthcare and disease management get fucked up
You should look at his application of stats and plotting. Really interesting if you're into that sort of thing. I used him as a paper topic in undergrad. One of the things actually applied in the real world ๐
Know your diarrhea
Similar to fiat's demise, assumption of guilt leads to self-inflicted damage, distracting from real causes, like money printing.