‘They know that there is electricity and internet and smartphones and that they could drive, but they choose not to,’ scholar Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar said of the Amish. ‘When you talk with them, they look at you, they listen to you, they wait before they respond.’
Two unvaccinated Amish infants infected with measles died in August in Lancaster County, Pa., the nation’s first measles-associated deaths this year.
When Lovina Zook put her dark green Amish dress back on for the video that catapulted her into online fame, butterflies flooded her stomach.
A group of Amish parents and schools in New York lost their second bid to secure a religious exemption to state vaccine mandates in June after the U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back to an appeals court for reconsideration.
