There ’s a lot of information about coronavirus online properly now , some of it utile , much of it alarming , and even more of it just confusing disturbance . Today , Apple co - founder Steve Wozniak contribute to that last category , tweeting thathe late retort from China and believe that he and his married woman Janet Hill “ may have both been patient zero in U.S. ”
Which , if true , like holy shit .
Fortunately , it does not appear to be true . According to USA Today newsman Jessica Guynn , Hill latertold the paperthat her illness was just a sinus contagion .
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check out Janet ’s bad cough . Started Jan. 4 . We had just bring back from China and may have both been patient zero in U.S. ( @ West Coast Sports Institute in Santa Clara , CA)https://t.co / MRNHqithEU
— Steve Wozniak ( @stevewoz)March 2 , 2020
Wozniak live in the enviable place of never needing to wage with other mass again if he so chooses — in real life history , and more specifically on social media . “ I never ever click my Twitter app and scroll through to see who ’s twitch what , ” he toldUSA Todaysome years ago , describing what for many of us is a utopian daydream . “ I just do n’t have clock time for it . I have a literal meddlesome life . ”
And his 11 year on the platform however have been largely uneventful ! Just the occasional retweet buried beneath the Boomer - spam of Swarm app check - ins . It ’s potential Woz forgot he colligate his Twitter and Swarm ( formerly Foursquare ) accountssometime in 2011 , and it ’s every bit potential the Apple II designer is incognizant that the former account is public and has conglomerate century of grand of followers .
While most famous technologists either carefully manicure their on-line personas or avoid having them altogether , Wozniak ’s check - ins are an unguarded and ( dare I say ) mundane account of one of the technical school manufacture ’s towering godfather . “ Dinner with the in - Torah , ” one tweet immortalise a sojourn to Celia ’s Mexican Restaurant in November reads . “ Midsommar . No idea what to expect , ” he pen from San Jose ’s AMC Saratoga 14 in July , with no review tweet expressing any reaction , effective or spoiled , to director Ari Aster ’s sophomore repulsion film .
Which leads us to today , when Wozniak appeared to assert that he and his married woman may have been responsible for for bringing the current COVID-19 virus to American shore , seemingly without any evidence .
“ check out Janet ’s bad cough,”the Swarm check - inbegins . “ Started Jan. 4 . We had just returned from China and may have both been patient zero in U.S. ” According to the app , he and his married woman are currently at Santa Clara ’s West Coast Sports Institute .
Some thinking occur . First , many Americans put off going to the doctor because our insurance system of rules is direct towards maximum drug user hostility — but that does not usually apply to people in the Wozniaks ’ tax bracket . If you may give it , do n’t just manage with having a forged cough for two calendar month !
Secondly , the World Health Organization release its first steering about the refreshing coronavirus on January 10 . If Wozniak believed he or his married woman may have come in contact with it , they had flock of time to seek aesculapian intervention or a quarantine . His Twitter provender shows over 20 arrest - ins between then and now , many of them involve orotund gathering of people , such asairports , eating house , anda hockey biz . How do I know Wozniak was cognizant of the composition of COVID-19 ’s spread ? HE FUCKINGTWEETEDABOUT IT .
Janet and I recover room virus we make over 2 weeks ago in Asia . I doubt it ’s coronavirus since we have n’t been in Mexico ( Corona ) ( @ Woz Home in Los Gatos , CA)https://t.co / GWzzOPQE86
— Steve Wozniak ( @stevewoz)January 23 , 2020
third , and perhaps most significantly : What the fuck , serviceman ?
The rapid spread of a disease gives rise to all types of misinformation . A thoughtful and level-headed person such as Steve Wozniak — who empty other social media site overethical concerns — might have seemed like an unlikely anatomy to contribute to that noise by post wild , half - cocked theories about their status as patient zero for the entire world to see , but here we are !
We desire that all Janet has is a sinus infection and that both she and Steve test negatively charged for coronavirus — as do the likely grand of people they ’ve been in contact with for the past two months .
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