Few days later
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Imagine being booed for asking your supporters to stop killing themselves
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Tells you a lot about what youâre doing when those are the kind of supporters you have.
Really, though, couldnât have happened to a nicer guy.
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One ICU doctor said the US should take note: âWe Brazilians had to learn in the hardest way that ivermectin Right Wing Politics doesnât work.â
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In typical Lindsay Graham fashion; heâll reverse his position.
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âwith low vaccination rates, supported by conservative politicians selling anti-vax sentiment and hoax cures under the guise of âpersonal freedom.â
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Almost seems as if all that effort in gerrymandering and voter suppression will be wasted if their base all die. Although they are probably still counting on these peopleâs continuing support. Itâs the Republican way.
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My favorite local Facebook group posted a similar story, the response was ânot trueâ. Their evidence? Covid doesnât affect the Amish and theyâre mostly rural.
For a group that does âtheir own researchâ they never get it right.
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They checked that on the Amish Facebook site, Iâm sure. 
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Actual LOL here! Although it wouldnât surprise me if they donât have Mennonites hosting their sites for them. You can certainly find websites for Amish products, including companies I know for a fact are Amish-owned and operated.
I spent last Thursday afternoon in the Shipshewana area (LaGrange County, IN), which is home to the third largest Amish population in the States (after Lancaster County, PA and Holmes County, OH). Went into at least 6 different establishments. I was the only person wearing a mask.
In the buggies an entire family might be squeezed together. And then there are all the get-togethers, religious or otherwise. If/when it comes to the Amish community, it will spread like wildfire.
But at least no one was rude to me about wearing a mask, so thereâs that.
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Alas, the rest of the world hasnât gotten it right. Unless they completely close their borders forever, thereâs no way they can keep the virus out forever. Itâs not their fault.
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I know, but compared to the rest of the world, they were doing an excellent job. I feel like the rest of the world has failed NZ, actually. If we had all followed their lead, maybe we wouldnât be dealing with the delta variant in the first place?
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Not to go too far off topic but the fridge in my RV bit the dust earlier in the year and needed a new cooling unit. Turns out the Amish are experts in the absorption cooling department. Seems electricity bad but propane or natural gas that requires lots of electricity to produce and deliver is just fine.
The company I bought from was distributing their cooling units that for the life of me I canât figure out how they make with out modern tools or electricity. Or how they sell and ship without using modern anything. It came from Shipshewana IN.
Point is, clearly there are loopholes and a bit of hypocrisy involved. Iâm okay with that but stillâŚ
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There are some interesting loopholes, to be sure. Working with Mennonites, for example.
This is a useful chart:
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That explains how I got my refrigeration unit. And it is way better than the original so the research that said the Amish are absorption experts was spot on.
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A compilation of stuff dumbasses said that will make you want to scream
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Covid doesnât affect the Amish and theyâre mostly rural.
COVID has ripped through the Amish and old-order Mennonite community in Ontario 
. Numbers are frustratingly hard to pin down but informal reports from colleagues with contacts are discouraging.
(Being Mennonite/Amish is a lot like being Jewish⌠lots of migrations, big diaspora, many sub-groups, only some are insular⌠hard to generalize⌠the spiritual homeland of Zurich, Switzerland doesnât quite factor the same way in the mythology, though.)
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I have a great niece living in Alaska. She is some sort of environmental something or other. I worry about her. Her parents just got back from visiting her, they put the hard sell to get out but sheâs very independent.
Dr. ââSteven Floerchinger gathered with his colleagues for an agonizing discussion. They had a better chance of saving one of the patients in the emergency room, they determined. The other person would have to wait.
That patient died.
âThis is gut-wrenching, and I never thought Iâd see it,â said Dr. ââFloerchinger, who has been in practice for 30 years. âWe are taxed to a point of making decisions of who will and who will not live.â
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