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Hey Jason how we doing? Well I've been better you know we during during the

real pandemic shutdown we did what we called the isolation tapes and I think today is actually a legitimate isolation tape because I now actually have COVID.

Yeah, and actually this is a rebound. We recorded 28, I think even 229, when I was in kind of the first phase of this after my trip to Polynesia.

And then that went away and I tested negative and then it kind of rebounded as it's known to do.

So I'm kind of in the second phase of it and it hasn't been, it hasn't been horrible.

I really can't complain compared to how some people have had to deal with this but

It's a bit surreal to having lived through

You know the pandemic as we all have for the past three years to get it now and like you know all the things you

read about you know loss of taste loss of smell fatigue I mean I've experienced it all

and it's kind of like it's like visiting a place that you've always only read

about and then you experience it yeah it's like visiting a place that you've always only read about and then you experience it.

Yeah. It's pretty crazy, but I'm upright and I'm just trying to lay low, you know, I just kind of

sit around the house and really try hard not to not to you know really try hard to

fight the urge to exercise or or do anything you know even shovel snow I've unfortunately

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