Covid News Around the World One Year Later

[Gil Boyd]

I wonder who innoculates the Taliban........................

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[Aragorn243]

I wonder who innoculates the Taliban........................

Probably no one. I live in a heavily populated Amish area and they aren't getting vaccinated, never social distanced, never stopped gathering in large numbers. In other words, they lived their lives as normal. No massive outbreaks, no massive death numbers, nothing out of the ordinary. And unlike the Taliban, they aren't hiding in caves. They are out in full force at the farmers markets, shopping in Walmart, etc, no masks, even at the height of everything. They have been studying another large Amish group in Ohio that has a vaccination rate of 14%.

"some Amish were hospitalized, but we learn that “this year hasn’t seen much more illness than others…in terms of people not feeling well enough to be out and about. Many people lost their sense of smell and taste, and some felt like they had the flu, but few felt worse than that.”

Like in other Amish communities, it is thought that “many people in the community did contract the coronavirus at some point.” Few have been tested, unless hospitalized. But a local funeral director confirms that there has been a “lack” of deaths due to COVID there."

I realize they put their faith in God and don't worry about death at all but that isn't going to change anything. What you don't see much of in the Amish community is overweight, out of shape individuals. I have a client who while not Amish is Old Order Mennonite which is pretty close in lifestyle. No car, no TV, no Radio. Does have electricity. She's in her 80's and makes me feel badly out of shape with her activity level. Always on the move.

Our big local farmers market shut down for a few weeks early on, then opened only the outdoor portion and finally the indoor portion. Half the stands are run by Amish or Mennonite families and no masks the entire time. My town is surrounded by them, they own many of the small stores and a few of the larger ones around here. The big stores complied with state directives for the most part but the small ones didn't. We never had a massive outbreak, the hospital was never overwhelmed, not even close. Our schools opened a week behind schedule and remained open to in person learning the entire year. The Amish and Mennonites have one room schoolhouses all over the place and the kids were outside playing at recess like normal so we all knew they were in school.

[erich51]