1/🚨 The Lancaster 'measles deaths' have ignited a state-vs-federal...
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Aug 27, 2026
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1/🚨 The Lancaster 'measles deaths' have ignited a state-vs-federal health clash.
Notice the timing: measles fear porn has escalated nonstop since @RobertKennedyJr took over HHS — and it’s been ratcheted up hard heading into the midterms
RFK Jr. is raising legitimate questions Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro is dismissing as “conspiracy theories.”
But there’s an even bigger evidentiary black hole neither side has fully surfaced. 🧵👇
Notice the timing: measles fear porn has escalated nonstop since @RobertKennedyJr took over HHS — and it’s been ratcheted up hard heading into the midterms
RFK Jr. is raising legitimate questions Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro is dismissing as “conspiracy theories.”
But there’s an even bigger evidentiary black hole neither side has fully surfaced. 🧵👇
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2/🚩 Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons put it on the record — a detail even Grok’s trending summary now flags:
🗣️ “The Coroner’s office has ZERO reported cases where measles is the immediate cause of death.”
The state says 2. The coroner says zero.
lancasteronline.com/news/health/la…
🗣️ “The Coroner’s office has ZERO reported cases where measles is the immediate cause of death.”
The state says 2. The coroner says zero.
lancasteronline.com/news/health/la…
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3/ Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni — statutorily required to certify communicable-disease deaths — confirmed to LancasterOnline:
🗣️ “No measles deaths were handled by our office.”
The one measles-positive case in his office? An infant who died of a ruptured spleen. 🩸
pa.gov/agencies/healt…
🗣️ “No measles deaths were handled by our office.”
The one measles-positive case in his office? An infant who died of a ruptured spleen. 🩸
pa.gov/agencies/healt…
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4/ A ruptured spleen is not a measles death. It’s a person who happened to test positive.
This is the “died WITH vs. died FROM” problem we spent 6 years untangling with COVID.
A positive PCR ≠ cause of death. The virus rides along without killing. We LEARNED this. 🦠
This is the “died WITH vs. died FROM” problem we spent 6 years untangling with COVID.
A positive PCR ≠ cause of death. The virus rides along without killing. We LEARNED this. 🦠
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5/ 🧬 Now the omission nobody is asking about: GENOTYPING.
Per the CDC’s own clinical overview:
“Genotyping is the ONLY way to distinguish between wild-type measles virus infection and a rash caused by a recent measles vaccination.”
Not one PA 2026 sequence has been made public. Zero. 🕳️
cdc.gov/measles/hcp/cl…
Per the CDC’s own clinical overview:
“Genotyping is the ONLY way to distinguish between wild-type measles virus infection and a rash caused by a recent measles vaccination.”
Not one PA 2026 sequence has been made public. Zero. 🕳️
cdc.gov/measles/hcp/cl…
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6/ 💉 Why this matters right now:
PA DOH ran 20+ pop-up MMR clinics across the outbreak zone and pushed early 6-month dosing.
MMR is a LIVE-VIRUS vaccine. Recently vaccinated people can develop fever + rash and test PCR-positive — clinically indistinguishable from wild-type without sequencing.
Dig deeper: "Confirmed MMR Strain Measles: A Real Phenomenon with Unanswered Questions" sayerji.substack.com/p/confirmed-mm…
PA DOH ran 20+ pop-up MMR clinics across the outbreak zone and pushed early 6-month dosing.
MMR is a LIVE-VIRUS vaccine. Recently vaccinated people can develop fever + rash and test PCR-positive — clinically indistinguishable from wild-type without sequencing.
Dig deeper: "Confirmed MMR Strain Measles: A Real Phenomenon with Unanswered Questions" sayerji.substack.com/p/confirmed-mm…
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7/ 🔬 A 2024 study found measles vaccine RNA in ~1/3 of children up to 4 weeks after MMR.
Documented vaccine-associated measles cases exist in the peer-reviewed literature (Oklahoma 2017, British Columbia 2013).
Without genotyping, you literally cannot tell the two apart.
sayerji.substack.com/p/wild-type-or…
Documented vaccine-associated measles cases exist in the peer-reviewed literature (Oklahoma 2017, British Columbia 2013).
Without genotyping, you literally cannot tell the two apart.
sayerji.substack.com/p/wild-type-or…
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8/ 🤔 The next unanswered question:
Why did PA DOH release vaccination status (both unvaccinated) — a medically identifying detail — but withhold age, sex, comorbidities, and dates of death, citing “privacy”?
That’s not privacy. That’s selective disclosure engineered for a narrative. 📢
Why did PA DOH release vaccination status (both unvaccinated) — a medically identifying detail — but withhold age, sex, comorbidities, and dates of death, citing “privacy”?
That’s not privacy. That’s selective disclosure engineered for a narrative. 📢
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9/ 👴 Consider what “unvaccinated” might actually mean:
Americans born before 1957 are presumed immune from natural childhood exposure and were NEVER routinely vaccinated. The CDC still classifies them as immune without any MMR dose.
An elderly “unvaccinated” decedent tells a very different story than an unvaccinated child.
Americans born before 1957 are presumed immune from natural childhood exposure and were NEVER routinely vaccinated. The CDC still classifies them as immune without any MMR dose.
An elderly “unvaccinated” decedent tells a very different story than an unvaccinated child.
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10/ 📊 PA DOH’s own dashboard through late July:
▪️ Largest cohort: adults 25–49
▪️ Second: children 10–18
▪️ Fewer than 20 cases in kids under 5
Nothing in the profile screams “child fatalities.” Yet the messaging is engineered to make you assume it.
local21news.com/news/local/mor…
▪️ Largest cohort: adults 25–49
▪️ Second: children 10–18
▪️ Fewer than 20 cases in kids under 5
Nothing in the profile screams “child fatalities.” Yet the messaging is engineered to make you assume it.
local21news.com/news/local/mor…
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11/ 🥊 RFK Jr. is right on the record about MMR-II.
Under oath in Aaron Siri’s deposition, Stanley Plotkin — inventor of the rubella vaccine — admitted his team used tissue from 76 aborted fetuses, all 3+ months old, in ONE study.
archive.org/details/2015-8…
@HighWireTalk has the deposition: thehighwire.com/ark-videos/abo…
Under oath in Aaron Siri’s deposition, Stanley Plotkin — inventor of the rubella vaccine — admitted his team used tissue from 76 aborted fetuses, all 3+ months old, in ONE study.
archive.org/details/2015-8…
@HighWireTalk has the deposition: thehighwire.com/ark-videos/abo…
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12/ And the FDA’s own MMR-II package insert states the rubella component is “propagated in WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts” — a cell line derived from an aborted fetus.
Not a conspiracy theory. Regulatory record.
fda.gov/media/75191/do…
Not a conspiracy theory. Regulatory record.
fda.gov/media/75191/do…
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13/ Kennedy is also right about the “died with vs. died from” distinction, about medical errors in the Texas cases, and about COVID-era erosion of public trust driving vaccination declines.
Shapiro’s dismissal is exactly the “gaslighting” Kennedy named it — dismissal in place of evidence. 🎭
Shapiro’s dismissal is exactly the “gaslighting” Kennedy named it — dismissal in place of evidence. 🎭
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14/ 📝 The evidentiary bar every honest journalist — and every honest governor — should be able to meet:
1️⃣ GenBank/MeaNS accession numbers for the decedents’ specimens
2️⃣ MMR dosing dates within 21 days of specimen collection for every 2026 PA case
3️⃣ Full autopsy + underlying cause of death per the coroner
4️⃣ Ages and comorbidities
1️⃣ GenBank/MeaNS accession numbers for the decedents’ specimens
2️⃣ MMR dosing dates within 21 days of specimen collection for every 2026 PA case
3️⃣ Full autopsy + underlying cause of death per the coroner
4️⃣ Ages and comorbidities
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15/ We learned during COVID that “died with” was quietly laundered into “died from,” that a positive PCR became a political weapon, and that “privacy” was invoked to shield inconvenient data.
Same playbook. Same missing molecular evidence. Same rush to blame the unvaccinated before the coroner is done. 🔍
Ask better questions. 🧬
👉Search my Substack for extensive reporting on the measles controversy, including evidence that measles outbreaks have regularly occurred in highly MMR-compliant populations: sayerji.substack.com
👉Also, research the underreported downsides and safety issues with the MMR vaccine on GreenMedInfo.com's open source database here: greenmedinfo.com/problematic-ac…
Same playbook. Same missing molecular evidence. Same rush to blame the unvaccinated before the coroner is done. 🔍
Ask better questions. 🧬
👉Search my Substack for extensive reporting on the measles controversy, including evidence that measles outbreaks have regularly occurred in highly MMR-compliant populations: sayerji.substack.com
👉Also, research the underreported downsides and safety issues with the MMR vaccine on GreenMedInfo.com's open source database here: greenmedinfo.com/problematic-ac…
