Coronavirus Outbreak

[Wade]

In case no one else copied this yet...

https://lancasteronline.com/news/health ... 32da3.html

It is striking how few plain people are affected by this disease despite taking no precautions whatsoever. In the plain world, the disease barely exists. It’s something you only have to think about when interacting with outsiders, or with the occasional person who likes following worldly trends.

For the ones around here that test positive or are forced to isolate - might have a day of fairly mild cold symptoms and then they do house renovations or something else around home for two weeks.

[ken_sylvania]

The administrator of the Parochial Clinic says COVID cases among the local Amish community seem to be nearly non-existent.
https://lancasteronline.com/news/pennsy ... a1c2e.html

[Ken]

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https://lancasteronline.com/news/health ... 32da3.html

It is striking how few plain people are affected by this disease despite taking no precautions whatsoever. In the plain world, the disease barely exists. It’s something you only have to think about when interacting with outsiders, or with the occasional person who likes following worldly trends.

For the ones around here that test positive or are forced to isolate - might have a day of fairly mild cold symptoms and then they do house renovations or something else around home for two weeks.

Most people in every community who catch Covid don't actually die from it, or even get hospitalized. Mild Covid is the norm for most communities and both deaths and hospitalizations are rare. Just not rare enough such that when you start counting whole cities or states the numbers start to look big.

Are you saying that the Amish tend to get a lighter form of Covid than everyone else (which I would question) or that they get the same Covid as everyone else and on average, few are affected severely because few in any community are affected severely?

[KrisKramer]

Mose Stoltzfus passed because of covid-19

I know of other plain people (including amish) who have had covid-19 and been hospitalized.

Do you know why we aren't hearing about a lot of cases in the plain communities? Because many are refusing to get tested. There are some who have even died probably from covid-19 but had refused to get tested.

I know of plain people who have gotten ill and probably had covid-19 but they didn't get tested because then they would have had to quarantine.

Lancaster County has had a huge covid-19 issue

[Robert]

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking- ... sk-mandate

The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Governor Tony Evers' mask mandate on Wednesday in a 4-3 ruling, deciding that the mandate exceeded his authority.
The decision, which came from the conservative-controlled court, comes after the state's Legislature voted to repeal the mask mandate in February. Gov. Evers then reinstated the mandate.
The court has ruled that Evers was only able to issue public health emergencies for just 60 days, to which any decisions would need legislative approval.
"The question in this case is not whether the governor acted wisely; it is whether he acted lawfully. We conclude he did not," Justice Brian Hagedorn wrote, according to The Associated Press.

[ohio jones]

Indiana's statewide mask mandate ends next week.

Last week, Ohio's general assembly passed a bill empowering themselves to rescind rules enacted by the department of health or other state agencies, and to terminate a state of emergency declared by the governor (which is henceforth limited to 90 days and can only be extended by the general assembly). DeWine, predictably, vetoed, but there were sufficient votes to override. However, I don't think it takes effect for 90 days.

People are speaking up, and they are being herd.

[RZehr]

Indiana's statewide mask mandate ends next week.

Last week, Ohio's general assembly passed a bill empowering themselves to rescind rules enacted by the department of health or other state agencies, and to terminate a state of emergency declared by the governor (which is henceforth limited to 90 days and can only be extended by the general assembly). DeWine, predictably, vetoed, but there were sufficient votes to override. However, I don't think it takes effect for 90 days.

People are speaking up, and they are being herd.

Some might say they were being herd all along.

[Robert]

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz ... k-mandates

While Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson officially allowed his mask mandate to expire on Wednesday, the state Senate passed SB 590 to ensure that the citizens are not at the mercy of their governor or health department to be able to breathe freely. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Trent Garner, declares that any future mask mandate issued by the governor or executive departments in response to the virus "is superseded by this act on the effective date of this act."

The bill passed the Senate 20-9, with just three Republicans joining the Democrats in opposition. Then, the Senate voted 27-7 to declare this bill an emergency, which, having garnered a two-thirds majority, enables the legislation to be effective immediately upon being signed into law. Republicans have supermajorities in both houses of the legislature and should be able to sustain a veto from the governor if he so chooses. He has been silent on this bill, but did successfully veto a bill last month that retroactively zeroed out agency fines levied against restaurants under his COVID orders.

The bill now heads to the House Public Health, Welfare, and Labor Committee, which is chaired by Rep. Jack Ladyman. The legislature smartly decided to extend the session this year. With our country in crisis and our rights smoldering in the ash of executive tyranny, legislatures need to remain in session as long as possible, conduct hearings getting to the bottom of the false legalities and science undergirding COVID fascism, and pass legislation accordingly.

Mask mandates are a violation of human rights, and they also have failed to alter the natural geographical curve in similar states within the same climate zone. Not only has Arkansas experienced the same epidemiological curve as its neighboring states, it actually had slightly more deaths per capita than the three bordering states that never had statewide mandates: Missouri, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.

I would not say this is balanced reporting. It is an opinion piece, but has facts in it.

Seems legislatures are starting to take back their power. A little late, but it needs to happen.

[Robert]

Good to hear differing viewpoints.

[RZehr]

Time to end the “hygiene theater”:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/end-the-hygi ... 40864.html

It’s time to unplug the sanitizing robots and put away the bottles of Clorox that seem to line the entrances to every school, restaurant and supermarket wanting to advertise its safety protocols. While such protocols may be reassuring to an anxious populace, they are not necessary, says a revised guidance issued on Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The coronavirus is spread almost exclusively by airborne and aerosolized particles, as scientists have known for months. Despite scientists’ growing certitude about how the pathogen is transmitted, many establishments have continued to insist on strict sanitization protocols. In some school districts, for example, classrooms close for full-day “deep cleaning.”

The persistence of such practices has led to the advent of a derisive term — “hygiene theater” — to describe rituals that appear to do little to stop the virus from spreading. It is not clear if the CDC’s new guidance will lower the curtain on those theatrics, given how entrenched some of those practices have become.