The Plain Amish community in Pennsylvania has become the first in the U.S. to achieve herd immunity after reopening churches led to 90% of households being infected with the virus last year, the Daily Mail reports.
This is according to a local administrator of a medical center in the area.
Allen Hoover of the Parochial Medical Center said that 90% of households became infected with the virus when they resumed church services late last spring.
As Hoover observed, faith in herd immunity prompted members of the community to relax on key mitigation efforts such as masking and social distancing.
It’s unknown whether achieving herd immunity in 2020 would be beneficial now.
The medical professionals are afraid it’s making the community feel too confident. The Amish don’t want to get vaccinated and the scientists say they need to since herd immunity is only good for a certain length of time and place.
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The number of SARS-Cov-2 Deaths have been grossly inflated. Just as everywhere else, SARS-Cov-2 deaths in the Amish Community were primarily over 60 y/o. Old people die, they are old. The total Deaths in 2020 are not statically higher than previous years and actually lower than Projections. Because of Baby-boomers, the yearly death total has been rising. SARS-Cov-2 did not… Read more »
Scientists don’t say that. Science says, virology says, that sixty to 70% is the threshold of herd immunity. Virology also says that viruses nearly always mutate into less virulent strains, perhaps easier to catch but increasingly less deadly to the host species. Virology also says that once your immune system fights off a virus, it detects strains of that virus… Read more »
Up until I was about 25, I got the flu every year. Sometimes twice a year. Now that I am a senior, I almost never get the flu, so I believe you are correct.
Reminds me of the meme of a “Karen” interacting with Amish (maskless) and asking why the Plandemic doesn’t hit them as hard, an elder replies…we don’t watch teevee.
Saw someone in a convertible top down Mustang earlier with a mask on and I LMFAO!
A populace that soft and weak deserves everything it is getting.
Boy you got that right! I see gomers driving around alone, windows up, masked. I want to holler at them, but my wife says no. These weak kneed sheep won’t last 48 hours if a real pandemic comes along.