Reposted by argumentative antithetical dream boy🪻
Yes, so many places are “I found this first it’s mine”
But that would weaken the message here.
Part of what’s compelling & makes me think we’re on the right course is the way different PAlors keep finding the same things, even coming at the puzzle from different directions at different times.
![Origin of patient zero [edit] "Patient zero" was used to refer to the supposed source of HIV outbreak in the United States, flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas in the popular press, but the term's use was based on a misunderstanding (and Dugas was not the index case).!" In the 1984 study of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), one of the earliest recorded HIV-patients was code-named "patient O"
", which stands for "patient
out of California". The letter O, however, was interpreted by some readers of the report as the numeral O. The designation patient zero (for Gaëtan Dugas) was subsequently propagated by the San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts in his book And the Band Played On in 1987. William Darrow, a CDC behavioral scientist responsible for figuring out why gay men in Los Angeles were dying of a strange
illness, said: "That's correct. I never labeled him Patient Zero" 18]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oqcmptuea6sjv3slpmqpjvj5/bafkreicxszrdd5ncc5ynwet3vepcvt3ocvwbv6zzsfgywx5yif2fetay7u)
