This is what you get when you trust your health to a witch doctor.

Excerpts from an article in the Sun 4 Oct 2026 Guardian:

Pennsylvania health officials brace themselves as measles outbreak expected to spread

Most counties don’t have their own health agencies, and some specific population groups have low vaccination rates

His specialty is environmental law, so naturally, Trump put him in charge of health — just another incompetent that Trump has made head of a department for which they have zero qualifications.

Do you remember when measles was eliminated in America because of vaccinations? That was two years ago, before Trump appointed “Witch Doctor Kennedy.”

Now, children are sickening and dying of this preventable disease.

Pennsylvania is bracing for a wave of measles cases, with some public health officials concerned that it’s “only a matter of time” until the disease spreads beyond the outbreak’s epicenter.

Last week, the state reported its fifth measles-associated death amid 943 confirmed cases across 39 counties. The outbreak comes amid concerns that public health in the US has been hit by increasing vaccine skepticism, especially due to the power and influence of controversial health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Lancaster county, which doesn’t have its own health department, has seen the highest amount of cases, at 381, believed to be mostly among the Amish or similar religious groups who have historically low rates of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine uptake.

Jeanne Franklin, director of Chester County’s health department, said her county, which has the third-highest number of cases at 83, is preparing for an influx of cases from neighboring Lancaster.

“We have a very long border with Lancaster County, and these types of disease don’t care about borders,” Franklin said. “It’s going to keep going and find a person who isn’t vaccinated. 

She added that although many Amish people have not been vaccinated, it’s not because they are anti-vaxxers, but rather because “they were either unaware of it or they don’t seek out healthcare as frequently as other residents”.

She added: “But they’re willing to have the conversation and make a decision on what’s happening today. They’re not making decisions based on the myths out there, but because their neighbors are impacted.”

Amid active surveillance of measles cases, contact tracing and setting up community vaccination centers, the county is also working to dispel misinformation some residents have about vaccine safety.

A Return to the Dark Ages of Myth, Rumor and Magic

We have people in key positions saying “it isn’t an outbreak, it isn’t a problem.”

That would be Trump’s witch doctor. But wait. Trump and his family have been vaccinated, but he hired an anti-vaxxer for the rest of us.

But it “isn’t a problem” that children are dying, is it?

We have people who approach our nurses and say that they were told the vaccine will make them sterile, or that there’s a microchip within it,” Franklin said.

That is what Republicans believe, because a Republican phony told them so.

Dr. Richard Lorraine, the medical director of Montgomery County’s Office of Public Health, said it is a “matter of time” before the third most populous county in Pennsylvania begins to see measles cases.

“We recognize that essentially it’s all around us, and so a big focus for the county is immunization,” Lorraine said. “It’s the best preventative measure and where the county is focusing its efforts on.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s witch doctor is in a state of denial.

And our children keep dying.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

Source: https://mythfighter.com/2026/10/04/this-is-what-you-get-when-you-trust-your-health-to-a-witch-doctor/