Amish community in PA is the 1st in USA to reach herd immunity

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2060

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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GuvGeek
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GuvGeek
2 years ago

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 take out an extra 2 or 3 percent of the American population as many people seem to think due to slanted reporting by the Main Stream Media. The Virus has been the Greatest Hoax ever and is being used as an attempt by Globalist to get control over the movements of everyone in the world. I am now firmly convinced the real death toll was no worse than an bad Flu Year and if we did nothing the deaths from Covid would be no different than today. We all but destroyed the US Economy on a lie! If anything, Covid showed us that you can’t control a virus in areas of high population density and so Big Blue Cities are by design a dangerous place to live. We totally disregarded 100 years of Military research into Biological warfare with Covid. Without a total lock down for many months there is no way to stop a virus outbreak. Once a virus outbreak starts it will continue until herd immunity. To date there is no long term virus vaccine due to virus mutation. Herd immunity is probably the better route as people’s immune system is better at “mutating” to destroy a “known” virus than guessing in a lab. This is why the annual flu vaccine in maybe 25% effective, and some people like me haven’t had a bad case of the flu or a cold in over 40 years. Modern Medicine isn’t nearly as good as they try to make us believe it is. Mass vaccination is not without risk. What if we require everyone to have evey vaccination then find out in 30 years that one has deadly consequences? The medical profession can’t guarantee that will not happen! Only people with real risk should vaccinate; Mother Nature can take care of the rest of us much more efficiently. Mother Nature has done a pretty good job over the last one million years.

Doug Larsen
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Doug Larsen
2 years ago

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 and kicks antibody production into high gear: resulting in a mild or even asymptomatic infection. So, herd immunity positively IS the way forward: not depending on mRNA “vaccines” in the future, scrambling to come up with a new “vaccine” each season to meet the strains of the virus that have appeared.

Melissa
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Melissa
2 years ago
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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.

Calumet Wolverines
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Calumet Wolverines
2 years ago

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.

Painesbannedghost
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Painesbannedghost
2 years ago

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.