By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-27 11:38:25 | Updated at 2024-09-30 21:30:23
3 days ago
Canada is fining the Amish $300,000 for not downloading a COVID app
American Thinker ^ | 26 Sep, 2024 | Andrea Widburg
Posted on 09/27/2024 4:29:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A month ago, news broke that, up in Canada, Justin Trudeau’s government is fining the Amish community $300,000 ($222,660 American dollars). Their crime? They didn’t download the government’s COVID app. The twist, of course, is that the Amish don’t have smartphones. They eschew all modern technology. This story has made almost no headlines, but it’s important because it’s a preview of coming attractions if Kamala becomes president. This is what leftists do. Acting for your own good, they destroy you.
As anyone who has watched either Witness or Weird Al Yankovich’s brilliant Amish Paradise knows, the Amish lifestyle does not embrace modernity. To hark back to another American pop culture moment, the Amish have “no phone, no lights, no motor car, not a single luxury. Like Robinson Crusoe, it’s primitive as can be.” This is not because the Amish are victims. They have embraced a lifestyle of pre-modern simplicity because their faith calls upon them to live this way.
However, in Canada, religious beliefs are not a defense against a massively overreaching government. Rebel News reported on the story in August:
The problem began with the Canadian government's enforcement of the ArriveCan app during the COVID-19 pandemic. This app was mandatory for anyone entering Canada, requiring travellers to submit their health information digitally.
The Amish, however, do not use smartphones, let alone apps. They also have religious exemptions from vaccinations, making the use of such technology unnecessary and intrusive for them. Yet, despite these clear exemptions, the government insisted on compliance, leading to severe penalties.
The result? The Amish community in Chatsworth has been slapped with nearly $300,000 in fines for not using the ArriveCan app. This is a community that doesn’t use electricity, let alone digital applications.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: covidiots
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1 posted on 09/27/2024 4:29:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
To: MtnClimber
Why would anyone vote for leftists?
2 posted on 09/27/2024 4:29:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: MtnClimber
They don’t use zippers. Do they use computers?
3 posted on 09/27/2024 4:31:31 AM PDT by albie (U)
To: MtnClimber
Trump better help save our former allies from themselves. Fiveyes appears to be a WEF tool, not an agreement between freedom loving western democracies.
4 posted on 09/27/2024 4:32:19 AM PDT by AndyJackson
To: albie
The problem is that they have a high fertility rate and are not setting themselves up for replacement by foreign prison populations and cat eaters.
5 posted on 09/27/2024 4:35:19 AM PDT by AndyJackson
To: MtnClimber
Amish will face the kind of oppression and domination they led so long ago.
6 posted on 09/27/2024 4:36:39 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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