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In reply to the discussion: Mask up everyone! NOW! [View all]Celerity
(43,312 posts)We (wifey and I):
Live in Sweden (almost no one masks here, no new surge, only surge in close to a year was the original Omicron in Dec/January)
We are both:
Young (25yo)
Very healthy and extremely physically active
We both have had
5 rounds (total of 6 jabs) of clinical trial investigational variant tweeted vaccines, the last one (actually last 2 jabs, as it was a 2-fer), as on May 23rd we got the brand, brand new (they can now spin up up subvariant tweaks in around 2 weeks with these new short analogue vax types) Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 tweaked stick, mRNA-1283.529.4.5 (you can tell Gen 2 short analogue Moderna jabs by the 1283 number, instead of 1273) short analogue (lasts longer, normal storage temps needed, and smaller doses), lower dose (15 or 30 µg, we were given 30 µg) Moderna jab.
We also (first time ever) were given a Pfizer jab (30 µg as well) as we are in the max dosage possible experiment arm cohort of the trials, and thus eligible for the new same day, cross brand double up protocol.
The first 4 Moderna jabs were all 1273, gen one, variant tweaked. The first 2 jabs were mRNA-1273.351 for Beta (aka the South African variant), then the first booster was mRNA-1273.617 for Delta (only stick that gave us bad side effects, nightmarish, but gone in 36 hours), then the 2nd booster, mRNA-1273.529 for Omicron, were all at 100 µg dosages.
So..... Nope, not masking, only if some crazy new variant comes along.
Respect to all who have never stopped masking, but we just are not going to roll like that atm, and have not for ages (well over a year now, other than a brief time when OG strain Omicron hit).