Posted on 10/13/2021 3:29:24 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
When it comes to actions taken to address the Covid-19 threat, hindsight is still very much underway. For your consideration: a story and outcome you probably aren't hearing much about anywhere else. It takes place in the heart of Amish country.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: thousands of families lead lives largely separate from modern America.
The Amish are a Christian group that emphasizes the virtuous over the superficial. They don't usually drive, use electricity, or have TVs. And during the Covid-19 outbreak, they became subjects in a massive social and medical experiment.
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My summary: The amish community in Lancaster County PA took a different path to herd immunity and achieved it faster than anywhere else I've seen.
No vaxxes - or at least extremely rare.
This interview explains their thought process and what happened.
I also heard this same story from my doctor here in PA that treats the Amish community.
Glad you know the Bible
Most Amish families stop formal attempts to educate at 8th grade.
yes, I believe that there is something special about the Amish.
They avoid many of the convenience 'trappings' that conventional society considers essential : electricity, automobiles, TVs, the social media and press, etc., etc,..
Having a community cup at religious services, meant that they got the earlier strains of covid, also their social isolation prevented them from getting several of the variant strains.
Isolation from the media kept them from getting caught up in the media hype.
They achieved 'Herd immunity' during the original covid, and due to social isolation,
the Amish built up that immunity in keeping with the original 98.7% survivability that was initially predicted.
FReegards sauropod!
Why do you use the word “cult”? If you are just using the word as a convenient religious pejorative, that I can understand, but if you have more specific criteria I would be curious. You may think that I am asking you to defend your use of the term, but I am not interested in agreeing with or correcting you, I am really more interested in your use of the word itself. I am a language maven first and most. Whether that is good or not I leave to others.
(Full disclosure-Baptist pastor, who does NOT have a positive view of Mennonite religion.)
Sure.
Where in the Bible does it talk about using buttons or not? Or having your phone only accessible in an outbuilding (I have personally experienced this.)
I understand two things about their culture that apply to buttons and telephones. Not that I am defending them, I just try to understand things. This book I found interesting:
“The Riddle of Amish Culture” by Donald B. Kraybill
Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1989, 2001 revised.
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