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IPFS News Link • Pandemic

How Amish Communities Achieved "Herd Immunity" Without Higher Death Rates, Lockdowns, Mask

• arclein
To get there, they did not implement lockdowns, vaccine campaigns, mask wearing, or social distancing. They instead stuck to what they valued most, community, contribution, family, health and tradition. Values that were pushed to the back seat in most areas of the world who put reducing COVID cases above everything else. Initially the Amish in Lancaster adopted a very brief shutdown at the start of COVID. Like many others, they were trying to find out what was going on and how severe the disease was. But once things were more clear, they took an approach that somewhat resembles what The Great Barrington Declaration sets forth ?" some focused protection for the vulnerable, but let people live their lives.