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Posted on 11/25/2021 9:30:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Amish communities of thousands in Lancaster, PA chose to not lockdown and instead went on with life in 2020.
Their communities were infected by COVID but death rates were not any higher than other places.
They lived life normally, did not wear masks and stuck to their values and culture.
How much value should we put on living life to the fullest instead of focusing on reducing COVID cases at all costs?
How many lives were lost as a result of harsh lockdowns?
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In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, thousands of Amish families took a different approach to COVID-19. Their outcomes are a story you probably won’t hear anywhere in mainstream media.
By May 2020, the Amish were through COVID and had obtained herd immunity according to those studying the communities. To get there, they did not implement lockdowns, vaccine campaigns, mask wearing, or social distancing. They instead stuck to what they valued most, community, contribution, family, health and tradition. Values that were pushed to the back seat in most areas of the world who put reducing COVID cases above everything else.
Initially the Amish in Lancaster adopted a very brief shutdown at the start of COVID. Like many others, they were trying to find out what was going on ad how severe the disease was. But once things were more clear, they took an approach that somewhat resembles what The Great Barrington Declaration sets forth – some focused protection for the vulnerable, but let people live their lives.
As COVID continued on, the ‘outside’ world began locking down. Governments were telling their citizens to lockdown, stop working, wear masks, social distance etc. The Amish didn’t feel this was in alignment with what they believe in.
Calvin Lapp, an Amish Mennonite living in Lancaster, PA, told Sharyl Attkisson during an interview about the approach their community took with COVID.
“To shut down and say that we can’t go to church, we can’t get together with family, we can’t see our old people in the hospital, we got to quit working…. It’s going completely against everything that we believe in and you’re changing our culture completely in asking us to act like they wanted us to act the last year. We’re not going to do it.”Calvin Lapp, an Amish Mennonite
During a Christian holiday when the community went back to church, everyone began getting coronavirus and inevitably developed immunity.
“When they take communion they dump their wine into a cup and they take turns drinking out of that cup. So you go the whole way down the line and everybody drinks out of that cup. So if one person has coronavirus the rest of church is going to get coronavirus. The first time we went back to church, everyone got coronavirus.”Calvin Lapp, an Amish Mennonite
Even as their population got COVID, some chose to go to hospitals while others didn’t. They felt it would be better to have people close to them around than be isolated.
What is clear is, there is no evidence that there was any more death amongst the Amish than in any place that shut down their economies, wore masks, and were vaccinated.
The good news for the Amish in this community is that natural immunity has been shown to be very robust time and time again. With the latest data indicating it is the best protection against re-infection and severe disease.
“There’s three things the Amish don’t like: that’s government – they won’t get involved in government. They don’t like the public education system – they won’t send their children to education. And they also don’t like the health system – they rip us off. Those are three things that we feel like we’re fighting against all the time. But those three things are part of what COVID is.”Calvin Lapp, an Amish Mennonite
To dive more deeply into this story, the nuances of it, and how these cases were studied more closely to verify what happened, I encourage you to check out the brief report below by independent journalist Sharyl Attkisson.
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My wife and I had covid last month. We’re still here. I actually feel better now than before.
Fantastic! Smarter than any world government. Worth reading and watching the video. Thanks for posting.
We poke fun at the Amish, but another thing about them, gotta give them credit for the concept of shunning. I believe it was Joe Pags who once said shunning is very underrated.
Don’t think we’ll see this picked up by our national media....except fox.
The Amish and the Swedish serve as control groups. It turns out, so does Italy, with them revising their Covid death rates down to 3% of what they originally reported.
When asked why the Amish community wasn’t much affected by Covid, the wise Amish gentleman replied:
“We don’t have television.”
Ha! Hadn’t seen your tagline before. I’ve been posting my prior post for a few months now, I forget where I first saw it. Probably here.
Bottom line: When an individual is exposed to COVIID or for that matter any other pathogen, whether that patient remains healthy, becomes ill and then recovers or dies has more to do with that individual’s genetic makeup than any other factor. Sadly two years into this pandemic it is still not possible to test for genetic susceptibility. Absent a reliable cure, the only effective medical intervention is a safe, effective vaccine. Safe and effective being key. However it is a mistake to overlook the immunity conferred in people who survived documented infections or the fact that children and young people if and when infected are not likely to become seriously ill or be “transmitters”.
Each pathogen follows its own course as it goes through the population. It does not follow a political narrative.
Its interesting that the Swedes, prior to the availability of vaccines and the Amish had basically the same approach to COVID. Overall they did no worse than those who underwent coercive, draconian lockdowns.
Truncated: The Amish let nature take its course.
Yup. That’s why many of us did not succumb to government and peer pressure to isolate and wear the facial diapers. Our Covid cocktail of D3, Zinc, and Quercitin appear to be effective warding off this flu.
Having been around the Mennonite folks....there’s this other little aspect of their life...they work outdoors a great deal and collect a ton of vitamin D. If you went and measured up a community of Amish/Mennonite folks...they’d all be mostly at the top level. I think the science community is missing this angle of the story.
“has more to do with that individual’s genetic makeup than any other factor.”
The “it’s all genetics” theory is nonsense. That’s been pushed by establishment medicine so people are brainwashed into thinking there’s little they can do, you will get sick, and then you have to go to an establishment medicine practitioner. Diet and excercise play a very big role.
The Amish are immune to Covid fear due to the lack of internet and TVs.
Vitamin D for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 142 studies
https://vdmeta.com/
Unfortunate choice of a URL, but good info.
Think about it this way.
You have a 99.98% chance without the jabs.
You take the jabs it is now admitted by Fauci you only have a 95% chance for 30 days and then it declines after that.
It has been said by all physicians that you DONT vaccinate in the middle of a pandemic.
Seems like they proved that right.
Virus has continued to mutate and spread with millions of vaccines given,just makes it worse,ANOTHER strain now reported this morning in Africa,but the vaccine companies making billions,I guess that’s what matters
Last spring my wife and I went to an Amish auction in Lancaster. About 1500 Amish and 3-400 english. Many of the english wore masks, no Amish did. Neither did we. The freedom we felt was awesome.
Yet another superspreader averted.
We finally got caught by the red death six weeks ago. Ivermectin and other supplements worked wonders.
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