Thoughts on our circumstances...: Pennsylvania nannies from the nanny state go after the Amish

Monday, September 28, 2026

Pennsylvania nannies from the nanny state go after the Amish

Editor's note: The Amish population in North America has reached about 421,340 in 2026, growing roughly 32 percent since 2017 and doubling about every 20 years, driven by large families and high retention. Pennsylvania remains the largest Amish state, with about 96,500 people (roughly 23% of the U.S. total), an 18% increase since 2020. Its Lancaster settlement alone holds around 44,000. Still, high land costs are pushing some young Amish families out of Lancaster County toward central and northwestern Pennsylvania, and to states such as Kentucky, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Indiana. Growth in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana has slowed to under 2% a year, while newer settlements in the Mountain West, including South Dakota and Montana, are growing much faster from small bases. Pennsylvania's Amish are spreading out rather than leaving. From current statistics, there is approximately an 11 percent (likely not confirmed) uptake in vaccines within Amish communities.
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PA Public Health Officials Target Amish Door-to-Door For Measles Vaccine Re-Education, On-Site Injection

By Benjamin Bartee | September 27 2026

In Pennsylvania Amish country, an obese and remarkably homely nurse in the employ of the state public health authority, Dale Weiser, pictured in all of her plus-sized glory HERE, has been going door-to-door with an arsenal of measles vaccines in tow to "encourage" vaccine uptake among the community that "abstains from Western medicine" – in other words, a community full of domestic terrorists begging for the business end of the long arm of the law.

("Never trust a woman named Dale," my Irish-Catholic grandmammy once admonished me over a glass of prune juice when my colon was backed up as a young tot, through wafts of smoke from her Virginia Slims.)

Via BBC (emphasis added):

Walking into strangers' homes, Weiser says she tries her best to be respectful and non-intrusive as she vaccinates dozens of family members against the measles, sometimes around the kitchen table.

"A lot of people that I encounter, they don't have health insurance. They don't have a lot of interaction with the health system, and they just haven't seen the need to get these vaccines," said Weiser, who works for the Chester County Health Department.

"When you start talking and you answer their questions, and build that trust, a lot of times they will make a different decision."

The at-home vaccinations are part of the county and state health departments' strategy to encourage immunisations in the county, which includes an Amish community who abstain from many aspects of modern life, including regular contact with the western medical system.

Related: WebMD Claims Covid Vax 'Still Crucial for Children'

In a real nation with any degree of civil liberties to speak of, obviously, the Amish residents of Chester County would be well within their rights to take a public health official turning up on their doorsteps with loaded weapons (syringes) as an existential safety threat and then to take the necessary actions to neutralise it – exactly the kind of eventuality the Second Amendment was intended to remedy.

Alas, America hasn't been a real nation for a great many years.

Chester County public health commissar Jeanne Franklin frames the door-to-door vaxx-them-all-and-let-God-sort-them-out campaign as a "boots on the ground" approach to the problem – the problem being the deplorable bumpkins who don't sufficiently appreciate all the good that Merck, the predominant supplier of measles vaccines in the United States, has done for the world.

BBC continues (emphasis added):

The boots-on-the-ground approach has helped the health department dispel misinformation and build trust with the community, local health officials said.

In recent years, childhood vaccination rates have fallen across the country as false theories about the safety of the measles vaccine have proliferated on social media.

Those theories have found roots even in an insulated community with limited access to computers, Weiser said. She has heard people ask if there are heavy metals in the vaccine that could make them magnetic, or if the shot has a computer chip in it.

"You're clearly getting information from that hard-core group that is promoting that misinformation and disinformation," she said.

To clear up any lingering confusion about what's going on here, in case it weren't obvious, "boots-on-the-ground" connotes a military operation.

Related: WHO Accuses Anti-Vaxxers of 'Anti-Science Aggression,' Calls Them 'Killing Force'

The Amish might not realise they're combatants in a war, but the state considers them something akin to insurrectionists on account of their unacceptable level of participation in the state biomedical regime – the same one that has been waging a covert, asymmetrical warfare on the American people at large for roughly the last hundred years, following the complete takeover of the medical establishment by the Rockefellers via the Flexner Report to turn humans into cash cows.

In what may or may not be related news, Massachusetts governess Maura Healey recently announced "home visits" conducted by government healthcare providers -aka the nanny state's progressive goon squad – to "make an assessment" about the conditions of the child and the fitness of the parent, which presumably includes whether the child has received all of his or her state-mandated injections and whether the parent is respecting the infant's preferred pronouns:

"Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you're going to have a home visit. You're going to have a home visit within days, weeks, and that will be an opportunity for a healthcare provider to make an assessment and to see if you need some additional support and resources. We also made more investments in training health care professionals, doctors, and others on how they can identify signs of postpartum."

Massachusetts governess Maura Healey announces "home visits" from government officials for the families of newborns to make an "assessment" pic.twitter.com/gCp76HPiz2
— Thomas Paine Reloaded™ (@BenBartee) September 27, 2026