covid got us

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that seems to be about the right color

hey everyone meet kevin here so

it appears

well more than appears at this point

that uh my kids and my wife got covet

and in this video i want to talk about

some of the crazy things that happen uh

regarding this i think first it's worth

noting that lauren has underlying health

conditions including asthma eczema and

some other issues

but

she is double vaccinated double

vaccinated with moderna got her booster

shot six weeks ago and on new year's eve

somehow

got covered

she has tested positive we don't know

what variant for and what's fascinating

is the difference between her and the

two little boys so we'll talk about that

in just a moment but uh first i'll give

you kind of a little bit of a rundown in

terms of lauren and i'll tell you about

myself as well

so lauren's biggest symptoms were

actually feeling exhausted she initially

had a sore throat on january 1 which is

about within that 24-hour window where

people tend to start developing symptoms

with omicron the earlier variants like

alpha and delta tend to take about three

to five days to start manifesting

symptoms and even though the technical

median reported symptom onset for

omicron is three days early studies from

hong kong have shown us that you develop

a severe viral load within 24 hours

in your bronchial passages which is

where you start getting that sort of

lighter you know cough it's not that

deep kind of pneumonia style cough now

uh so it makes sense that she would

start feeling some some form of initial

symptom onset uh it was about the

evening of january one so probably 24

hours or so if we're right about where

we expect uh this covet was contracted

which we'll circle back to that uh she

had a sore throat all day the second day

on january 2nd and the biggest thing for

her though was body aches light coughing

not much here her throat the sore throat

issue went away within about the first

48 hours and the biggest thing for her

was just body aches and exhaustion just

feeling like

she had to take a nap after nap wake up

get a cup of coffee go back to sleep

over and over again this feeling of

not being able to do anything which is

pretty frustrating now uh today is

january 8th and uh lauren feels mostly

completely recovered

as of january 6th she had no other

symptoms other than maybe once every two

or three hours an occasional little

cough like clearing your throat almost

style cough

but still some lingering feelings of

exhaustion the body aches have mostly

escaped

so that's lauren double vaccinated and

boosted within the last six weeks so who

knows if this would have been any worse

for or any better we know that

vaccines

a double vaccinated person with an mrna

vaccine is only 23 percent likely not to

catch covid if they're exposed to

omicron because of all those antibody

mutations while mutations on the tip of

the spike protein which then limit the

effectiveness of the body's antibodies

but we can prevent severe disease either

potentially being vaccinated or with

prior exposure because of our t cell

response maintaining strong resilience

despite the fading effect of antibodies

thanks to those changes in the spike

protein all that aside uh lauren was

also boosted now boosters only give you

about a 76 chance of not having severe

disease

they don't give us statistics in terms

of you being boosted in your odds of not

catching covet probably because it's

relatively low at least i couldn't find

any my research

so then we got to talk about jack and

max because both of them also tested

covet positive but there's something

really weird here

max

has not been vaccinated that's because

vaccines don't yet exist for children

under five he has no vaccine he is three

weeks away from turning four he's got a

birthday coming up on the 23rd of

january here

uh and uh he he doesn't have uh

underlying conditions that we're aware

of uh and we know that every person can

react differently but he's not

vaccinated again children under five

they're doing vaccine trials for

children under five but in children

under five uh the children are not in in

the studies actually creating any kind

of immune response to the vaccines

they're just really not working now

they're trying to triple dose uh

children to see if that'll actually

generate an immune response

who knows how it's actually going so far

but anyway

so max

gets covered absolutely

zero symptoms no vaccine no boost

nothing zero symptoms i asked them i

went in with a mask on and we got the uh

the n95s uh for for what they do you

know i don't actually have one in here

and 95 oh here it is the n95s are really

really great i think this is your

probably best defense if you're walking

around populated areas i'm not sponsored

by these companies or whatever i don't

really care uh they're really a pain in

the butt to wear though i hate wearing

them you got to make sure the seal is on

right n95s are deemed to be about 90

effective for most folks 90 to 95

effective depends on how the user is

wearing them if you have facial hair

obviously effectiveness goes down but

the n95s are best uh better than the

kn95s those are deemed to be about 80 to

maybe 88 effective

uh anyway k95 is just the chinese

standard but uh honeywell amazon

not sponsored and i don't invest in the

company it just might be fully

transparent because sometimes people

wonder so max no vaccine no symptoms i

asked max i go hey how come how come

you're not sick and uh he told me his

solution was dad i punched it

and and that's why he didn't get sick so

he if you think you're going to if

you've been exposed to covet just punch

it uh and you'll be better

so that's max again three weeks away

from four years old and then we have

jack who's six years old

double vaccinated with pfizer as of

about six weeks ago so no booster yet

but double vaccinate because he was just

eligible for it so he double vaccinated

with pfizer

and uh jack actually had

uh

not great symptoms that is he had

symptoms uh not only did he have a

consistent cough on january 1st uh but

he was out of it for about two days he

bounced back uh fortunately by the third

day but two days he was out he was sick

and it's we we know that every person

reacts differently everybody reacts

differently we just think it's like it's

a joke in our household right now it's

sort of a running joke like

yeah our totally unvaccinated child and

we realize this is totally anecdotal

right so there's no conclusions i think

to really draw from this but we it's a

joke in our household now like yep our

unvaccinated uh nearly four-year-old

he was totally fine and test covet

positive with zero symptoms so he's

asymptomatic despite playing with jack

sleeping in the same room i mean we're

sure he probably got exposed to a

substantial dose

unless lauren and this is possible

unless lauren and jack went somewhere

caught covet from somebody else and this

is a theory caught coveted from somebody

else by having direct exposure like a

full dose of exposure from somebody else

who was covered positive and then

potentially when jack and lauren started

developing symptoms shed uh nominal

amounts of covid to max that allowed

max's body then to respond to those

nominal that nominal exposure

and so that way when lauren and jack got

more sick and and shed more covet virus

max was already building an immunity

that's possible because remember most

people are asymptomatic or asymptomatic

because they got a smaller exposure to

covid at least that's that's what the

science says now it's also of course

possible that people just react

differently but in general

most of the time when people are

asymptomatic they just got a smaller

dose or exposure so for example for

myself

i i have had no symptoms i also have not

tested because honestly i i hate

i hate it so i'm not interested uh in in

testing it just is what it is i'm kind

of just isolating i'm kind of assuming

uh that we want to be careful although

it's been quite a while now we're past

cdc isolation guidelines anyway we're

just being overly safe uh i have around

my family kept hepa filters on we've got

very strong commercial grade hepa

filters and i've been wearing an n95

around them just because my hope is

actually that i got a small dose from

jack and lauren like max so that way i

actually got exposure and my hope is

that that that now insulates me from

future coven so that way it's kind of

like ah you got the vax i don't know if

that's actually helping you or not in

theory it is that's what they tell us uh

and uh if i if i got a little bit of

shedding without actually getting sick

that hopefully i was asymptomatic best

case scenario i know i should probably

test them then i could like solidify

that but uh

i don't know probably won't so uh anyway

this is this is our weird little covet

story so uh my belief is uh that uh

either i had

kovid and i was asymptomatic or i didn't

catch it because of the precautions i

took that's possible uh

you know i've kind of been letting my

guard down the last day like the last 12

hours i've kind of it's like okay we're

now a week past symptom onset for the

others i'm tired of wearing this it

gives me a headache all the time when i

wear it and it's it's a pain in the butt

so hopefully hopefully we're done

they're not contagious anymore still

being half careful we'll see if i'm sick

over the next couple days then then i

guess my precautions worked i was safe

for a week because i took extreme

precautions

today i've been lackadaisical so if i'm

sick on monday by market open

well then i should have kept going with

my precautions for a little longer

so i guess i'll be i'll be a living

experiment

uh but anyway yeah so that's our joke uh

i don't know if it's really a joke

because it's not like haha funny it's

just kind of like oh wow that's weird

but the unvaccinated one totally fine

the vaccinated people out

again the the theory about exposure

makes sense

but who knows oh yeah i did say i was

also gonna circle back to where we think

we got it uh so uh i believe it was new

year's eve

we uh we went to uh a dinner which

remember the thing about dinners okay

and this is what i absolutely hate about

our government they have a stupid dumb

mask mandate from the door to where you

sit down

it's completely moronic it is literally

the dumbest thing our government could

possibly do because when people are

sitting and eating they're not obviously

wearing their masks and that's when

they're shedding the most potential

coven and this is where i believe

the hit zone was because guess what

folks it was a cold night outside

and this restaurant had zero hepa

filtration or ventilation and we know

that the best thing you could do to

minimize covet transmission in indoor

environments when people are not wearing

masks because they're freaking eating is

hepa filtration and ventilation you can

create a cross breeze which you

obviously can't do when it's cold

outside this is why the winter is a

riskier period of time or you have a

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you'll see this uh hepa filter that we

use we have three of them in the house

so i i moved one actually from the

garage to the master where lauren and

jack were because i'm like you guys need

to contain this so it's kind of like the

suction cup going into that i'm like

keep away from me

uh and so we have three of them i've got

one in here one there and then we keep

one in the family room so that way we

have that that going on but like

why in our household do we have three

but restaurants have a mask mandate for

the door to where you sit but no hepa

filtration requirements like even planes

have hepa filters that's why you

actually have lower cover transmission

on planes because you've got this

circulation of air through the fuselage

uh and and you're changing the air so

much through you know hepa filters that

are 99.9 effective at catching cover now

some people

they say oh but kevin the covent

molecule is actually smaller than hepa

filters this is true but you have to

remember how in practicality science

works the covet molecule doesn't float

around itself it floats around on like

mucus or dust particles and those are

large enough to be caught by hepa

filters so this is why hepa filters are

so good especially if you which the ones

i use have the the uv light on them as

well they've got a couple really bright

uv lights and in theory those are

supposed to kill uh viruses

theory but anyway everything's just

theoretical at this point but anyway uh

that drives me nuts so to me

that's my expectation as to potentially

where uh

there was the coveted infection from uh

the only other option could have been uh

jack and lauren maybe going over

somebody's house for new year's eve

and and playing playing games with them

briefly not long and maybe there was

where there was coveted in that

household that's the only other

possibility uh i think the restaurant

was a risk but then again because jack

and lauren did get to become symptomatic

at the same time uh i do think there is

a chance that it wasn't necessarily the

restaurant that it was somewhere jack

and lauren had gone

uh and again because they had symptom

onset at around the same time and jack

wasn't at the restaurant so

just thoughts uh theories i have no idea

and i think that's the most frustrating

thing it's also kind of lame that like

lauren got her covet alert on her phone

on january 7th which is like a week

later so it's kind of like lauren's sick

and it's like oh

thanks iphone for letting me know that

i've been around somebody with covid

seven days later which i like i get it

like the other person has to report sick

and it takes time but it's like

come on man what's the freaking point

like the person who was sick that day uh

i would probably should have tested at

least uh you'd think that uh that we

would have gotten a notification for

that but no it's just we have such a

hodgepodge of uh of sharing of uh

coveted infections in this country that

uh it's no surprise that uh you know and

i know we value privacy substantially

here but i think the government has just

fully failed i'm just gonna leave it at

that blame the government uh and i think

that's a fair fair blaming you know we

don't have enough tests that's the

government's fault we don't have indoor

hepa filtration that's the government's

fault uh we have

dumb mask mandates which don't require

good masks like i could literally

go into and this is the stupidest thing

ever i could literally go into a

restaurant

like this

and i'm good like this is this is deemed

good enough like this is stupid first of

all like this is just a cutesy mask off

uh off etsy uh which don't get me wrong

i like it you know i gotta get your

rogue on uh rogue i don't have my horde

one here i don't know where i put my

horde one but i got my alliance one

right here i always try to represent

both red and blue because you know i did

uh i did people don't believe me i did

uh i posted it on twitter follow me on

twitter if you haven't yet i really

haven't i did a what is called a

political bias test or whatever

and uh and i've always said that i'm 51

49 and it's quite amazing where that

political bias test uh resulted it was

basically

uh if you have a bar right here you have

left and right i was literally 51 49 on

that line for left and right

and then if you draw a line down the

middle with the top being authoritarian

the bottom being libertarian it was

about halfway down so it was like 5149 a

democratic republican so very very in

the middle right uh but then halfway

towards that that libertarian side so

kind of interesting so uh anyway there

we go there you have it uh thank you so

much for being here folks appreciate you

stay safe out there and we'll see you

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