Posted on 10/10/2021 9:48:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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Sharyl: So, it's safe to say there was a whole different approach here in this community when coronavirus broke out than many other places?
Calvin Lapp: Absolutely.
Calvin Lapp is Amish Mennonite.
Lapp: There’s three things the Amish don't like. And that's government— they won't get involved in the 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. Well, those three things are all part of what Covid is.
After a short shutdown last year, the Amish chose a unique path that led to Covid-19 tearing through at warp speed. It began with an important religious holiday in May.
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Lapp: It’s a worse thing to quit working than dying. Working is more important than dying. But 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. You're changing our culture completely to try to act like they wanted us to act the last year, and we're not going to do it.
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Sharyl: So, are you saying, as of about May of 2020, things kind of went back to normal in the Amish community?
Steve Nolt: For the most part, yeah, by the middle of May, it's sort of like back to a typical behavior again.
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“It’s a worse thing to quit working than dying. Working is more important than dying.”
Forgive me, but I don’t know what in the hell that means.
He’s saying that not being allowed to work is a fate worse than death.
It is better to work than to spend your time not working and using that time to plan to die (or plan all these “things” to not die).
No one ever told me I was Amish. What a surprise.
Doing wha the entire world should have done from the start. Quit cowering in fear, and keep living. When it’s your time, it’s your time. Period.
They don’t trust the english..
I read the whole article looking for that quote
Natural immunity isn’t 100% and it doesn’t last forever.
With the current state of the Covid-10 virus herd immunity is a myth.
If Covid-19 is like other coronaviruses it will evolve into something like another common cold strain in a couple of years.
Hard work, being a productive member of society, and living a humble existence are some of the basic tenets of Amish life. Obedience to God is primary, of course, but a strong work ethic is essential for survival.
Telling an Amish man to abandon everything that makes him a man in the eyes of God is worst than death. He would rather die a man.
No one has ever claimed anything, including the vaccinations, is 100% effective
That why CDC and others are starting to discuss the need to have “vaccine” booster shots, possibly as frequently as every 3 months, to make them work
If we were true to who we were in 1776 we wouldn’t trust the English either!
The Amish treated the Fauci/China biological warfare virus like it was just another flu, which it was.
Too bad the Branch Covidians showed up.
Be a shame if they all starved to death.
Branch Covidianss don’t know what anything means.
Thank you, all, for the explanations. I’m not sure that I’m totally onboard with the logic, though, as dying also involves the cessation of working. When he says, “I’d rather die than stop working,” he’s saying, whether he realizes or not, “I’d rather die AND stop working.”
It would seem they were right. There are have been more deaths from Covid this year in the US then in 2020. So far our approach has been a spectacular failure.
We wasted hundreds of billions and achieved nothing.
We always survived the flu before.
No reason we wouldn’t have survived this one, but it’s much more fun for sociopaths to ply Somon Says with masks and lockdowns and vaccines and passports.
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Guessing there’s no shortage of Ivermectin
Forgive me, but I don’t know what in the hell that means.
He actually means: To quit working is worse than dying. Working is more important than avoiding [the small risk of] death.
Regards,
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