Amish reaction to vaccine has been echoing that of the community's rural neighbors [View all]
ELIZABETHTOWN — In Plain community newspapers, the obituaries for Amish and Old Order Mennonites rose during the pandemic, just as they did in other communities.
That’s how Steven Nolt identified COVID-19′s impact on the Plain communities across Pennsylvania because, beyond that, there are no reliable methods for measuring how many people in those communities contracted the virus or received the vaccination.
“We don’t have data because Amish folks were, generally speaking, not interested in being tested, for a number of reasons,” said Nolt, interim director of Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.
“In some cases, they would say things like: ‘I knew I was sick. I didn’t have to go and tell someone I was sick.’ Or another concern of: ‘Well, if it turns out I’m sick, I’m going to be told to do this and this that I don’t want to do.’”
Read more: https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-pa-exchange-virus-outbreak-amish-20210605-i42ebx6e6bd7bbs3rcdabf2lka-story.html
(Allentown Morning Call)
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