OK, so a long post and full disclosure as I don't hide anything.
My son and his girlfriend came home from school to visit last Tuesday. They had been in Chicago at Lalapallooza, so I made them get tested. They were negative.
He is the one who had Covid July 2020.
My youngest son and wife had Covid in May 2021, caught at a wedding we all attended.
Well last week, the day my oldest son came home, the youngest had been experiencing cold symptoms for 3 days. Finally on Wednesday I said go get tested. He objected, he said Dad, all my friends are sick too and they have the vaccine." I said I don't care, go get tested. Hours later they called him. Positive again. After just 3 months. We were all stunned.
Reinfection rates among the naturally immune hovers around 1%. He's one of the unlucky 1%.
So my experiment. I have now been exposed to COVID 3 times in my home, and I've not gotten it. So I got tested the same day he did (negative) and got an antibody test (blood drawn). Was going to take a couple days to get the results.
In the meantime, of his five friends, several went and got tested. 2 did not. 3 of them...all vaccinated...were positive.
So data point one...take it for what it is worth, but in his cluster of 6 friends, one got it who had had it before (my son)...3 got it who were vaccinated.
His symptoms were gone in 2 days, nothing more than a mild cold. Zero effect, never had a headache.
Friday rolls around. 11AM I start feeling achy. I'm like oh ****. By 1, clear fever/chills. 3:15 I get a rapid test and get the results of my antibody test. Negative. I have not had Covid. Hugely disappointed.
I come home, crawl into bed after showering...so hot, so feverish...start overloading on vitamins and zinc and taking Tylenol and Advil alternating to control fever. Everyone's like Dad's now got it. On Wednesday, when the youngest was sick, I was essentially hugging him fitting him for a weightlifting belt. I was intimately around him all day for 3 days of symptoms. We even play tussled/wrestled one evening.
I lay in bed, usually the results come in the hour. It wasn't until 7:30 I get a text to log into the patient portal and see my results. I'm like WTF? They CALL you if you are positive. I log in....my rapid test results - negative. No Covid. I'm just flabbergasted. Like, no way...I have all the symptoms of a flu - headache, fever, coughing, congestion.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I ran a consistent 101 fever, feeling down and out. Just tired and achy and feverish. But who gets the flu in August here?
Anyway, today I'm just about over it. Still dragging. Not convinced I didn't get Covid and it was a false negative.
But I had a very interesting discussion with the doctor last week about my son's results and was curious how I simply have not gotten it being exposed to them all, eating from their food when infected, etc, etc.
I told her about my daily regimen of Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Zinc tablets, a probiotic, and nightly a zinc nose spray (Zicam). She said that's it confidently. I said wait how? She said, and it made no sense to me, that taking those block your "receptors" from catching the Covid virus or something similar. Any medical professionals able to decipher this? Paging
@ZonaBurgh . Receptors?
Next data point: She raved about the effectiveness of doing this every day. So all of you out there who've discussed these vitamin cocktails, keep doing them.
Third data point: The doctor, who is the mother of one his former high school friends, told him point blank, this isn't a big deal. You've gotten Delta, you'll have the sniffles for a few days. It's not to fear. She did advise quarantining, which he has done 100%.
Finally, I'm still not convinced I didn't get Covid. I'm gonna get tested again to validate. I think it was Covid. Regardless, as an asthmatic, I was nervous. Whatever I had led to coughs, but nothing substantial. I'll get the results and share later.
Or maybe I caught one of those rare flu viruses that have evaded us for a year. Who knows...yet.
Now, let Floggy and Tiblio and the rest try to flame me for being a complete, utter, reckless, danger to society lol. And when you tools do, don't forget to comment on my son getting it again while 3 of his vaccinated friends did. You're gonna say he/we should have been vaccinated. Didn't help them.
