Random information is confusing

Back in April I was home, in self-quaratian, for three weeks. I had a sore throat and a runny nose. Thing one normally don’t stay at home for one single day. Also back then we had less 50 cases of confirmed covid-19 in town. But I know that if I had called the medical care hotline, and described my symptoms, I would have be told to stay home.

What I want to write about is the talk about asymptomatic spreading of covid-19. Our experts, or many of our experts, said asymptotic infected people were unlikely to be a driving force of the virus. At the same time, I saw headlines in English about asymptomatic spreaders. On social media it was, not surprising, even worse, like the screenshot that criticized some republican governor for not knowing that asymptomatic patients spread the virus something “the whole country had known since january” (in January WHO didn't know that, but I guess WHO didn't asked social media). I started to think our experts were wrong, were stupid, or for some reason refused to change their mind.

Then I read this twitter thread with Dr Muge Cervik. It may just be a misunderstanding? We have different definition of “asymptomatic”? Our experts talk about a spectrum of symptoms. That’s why you should be home even if you only have mild symptoms like a sore throat and a runny nose. The one talking about asymptomatic spreaders are talking about people with mild cases, mild symptoms, but not fever and cough. Like they only count fever and cough as "real" covid symptoms?

What I’m saying is that Americans need to learn that the whole world speak English and they need to understand how to write an article without making me doubt our experts there’s always a risk that readers, like me, misunderstand a text. The risk of misunderstanding, in all likelihood, increase if reader and writer are from different cultures. That’s just how it is. One can’t take responsible for anyone misunderstanding what one write.