Foodborne illnesses are overpowered because humans are terrible at cause-and-effect. Tummy hurts? Puking, diarrhea? Humans will say oh it's the last thing I ate. WRONG, many of these pathogens can take a day or more to show up. Salmonella usually takes 6-48+ hours for symptoms to develop. Norovirus, 12-48 hours. Depending on the type, E. coli can take 1-8 days.
By the time you stop shitting your brains out for long enough to wonder how you got sick, you're looking at entirely the wrong time window. Karen is calling the health department on the burrito truck that gave her the runs, whole time it was the upscale restaurant she went to two days before. Diseases are sneaky like that.











