Here's my own story why I hold Kirsch's account credible:

As many of you may know I live in Southern Iowa and manufacture a health product with my Amish crafts people that live a few miles away from me as well as in Northern Missouri.

I visit them often and during covid times, in August 2022 as I recall, I asked them whether they knew anyone in their extended Amish families or connections (which spans at least 7 Midwest States) that had either died of covid or actually had covid.

Most of my Amish said they hadn't heard of anyone.

But my primary assembler, Freeman who I see most often, said he'd heard from his cousin in Northern Indiana who told him of one supposed covid death of an 83 year old Amish farmer near him.

The cousin was very skeptical of that death because another one of his neighbors went to a local MD who tested the neighbor and told him the test came back POSITIVE with covid and wanted him to go to a local hospital for immediate treatment.

Being a typical Amish farmer he asked the doctor to show him the test results so he could see for himself.

The story goes that the doctor became visibly uncomfortable and tried to talk him out of showing him the test results which only made the Amish neighbor more adamant. Then the doctor made him wait a while before he came back to talk to him.

Finally the doctor showed him the test results – which were, in fact, Negative.