Ah, 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 gon na 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 hepa filter. One strong commercial grade, hepa filter every 400 square feet, and this is an affiliate link.

So i'm going to be transparent as always, but if you go to medkevin.com air, i get nothing for you to go to the link, so you can check it out. If you want uh, if you want to buy it, you could i mean, i think, we're kind of getting to the end of pandemic. Anyway. I think they're good to have a house, especially since we've got allergies in the house, but anyway, uh medcavan.com air 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 gon na 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 got ta, 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.

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