Reach the main blog via the thumbnail at the end of this post. Footnotes/ media comments: recent ones are at the bottom . When the care homes situation had been reported in 2020, Grant Shapps said on TV: 1. "There was no instruction book", 2. "We didn't know that the disease could be asymptomatic" (It was his way of saying, 'We didn't know that we were sending virus into the care homes'.) Robert Jenrick had said the same two things in the morning on BBC Breakfast. Bear in mind that : 1. South Korea's first official case, confirmed on 20 January 2020, appeared healthy until they could check her more closely at a hospital. They decided then that they'd strive to test all contacts of infected people, whether or not they were showing symptoms. 2. A longstanding definition of a carrier, showing today on NIH.com, was: 'A carrier is an individual with no overt disease who harbours infectious organisms'. There was nothing new about ...