Jon McNinch

A Braves fan since Chipper Jones' rookie season, or roughly since I was 7 years old. I tweet far too much, infrequently

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

LET IT FLY, AUSTIN!

#LetItFly

[Hammer Territory Podcast @HammerTerritory]

AUSTIN RILEY FOR THE LEAD!

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

Let's set the record straight because @RobertKennedyJr’s post is inaccurate and misleading and he is making claims that have been debunked repeatedly by actual scientists and doctors.

Secretary Kennedy called me yesterday morning to ask whether Pennsylvania needed any additional support to respond to the measles outbreak. I told him I appreciated the call but that our Administration and the Pennsylvania Department of Health had all the resources we needed to respond, including existing support from professional staff at the CDC and HHS. 

I told him what would be most helpful is if he would join me in encouraging people to get vaccinated and stop spreading misinformation. He then launched into a tirade — talking about fetal tissue and blaming the previous Administration for this problem. He even told me it would be better if we went back to “natural measles.”

Unfortunately at a time where I needed the top “health expert” in the nation to responsibly work with us to deal with this outbreak, he instead chose to go down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and false claims.

To his claim about fetal tissue, that has been thoroughly discredited time after time by real doctors and trusted medical institutions like CHOP. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics has an entire webpage devoted to this.

They write: “Vaccines do not contain fetal cells. Some vaccines involve growing viruses in human cell cultures originally developed from two aborted fetuses in the 1960s. These cell lines are still going, so no new aborted fetuses are ever needed. Purification processes filter the vaccine during production, and no fetal tissue remains.”  

But my conversation with him proved what many of us already knew: 

Secretary Kennedy’s actions to dismantle public health agencies and his language that undermines confidence in vetted medical guidance are contributing to these kinds of outbreaks. 

Just a few years ago, Secretary Kennedy was in Lancaster downplaying the severity of measles and saying that the cure was “chicken soup and vitamin A.”

Before he held his current position, measles was virtually eliminated in the United States. As recently as 2024, there were only 285 cases of measles across the entire country over 12 months. This year, in just 8 months, there are nearly 400 cases of measles across 29 counties in Pennsylvania alone — and nearly 3,000 cases across the country. 

In Pennsylvania, 70 people who have tested positive for measles have been hospitalized this year — and yesterday, our @PAHealthDept announced that two Pennsylvanians who tested positive for measles have died.

According to doctors and medical experts, the MMR vaccine is the best way to protect yourself, your kids, and your community against measles. But we have seen vaccination rates decline on RFK’s watch. 

The correlation is clear: Secretary Kennedy has stoked confusion amongst parents and others — and the result has been less protection from measles and more cases.

As a dad, all I want is to protect our four kids. I know that’s how every parent feels. Parents have the right to make their own decisions about how to keep their kids safe and sort through the noise to figure out which information to trust. 

So what I’d ask of every parent in Pennsylvania: take any information you get about vaccines and talk to a trusted health care provider about it before you make your decision.

The most important conversation that needs to take place now is one that should happen offline, in the real world, between parents, their trusted health care providers, and other medical experts.

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

@youhealedme You're the lost member of Shinee

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

@Vocor_Kane @PhillyD If you're looking for an adult in the room of career politicians, you're never going to find one. Let's be real

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

@BatteryPowerSBN Good for rain and excessively hot days

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

@angercs And don't look a day over 30! Happy birthday, Todd!

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“Tounesseo” 🤦🏼

[Shannon @shannonplante]

I cannot stop laughing at this OMG

@Twitch’s OWN streams will be opt-ed out of AI training. This should tell you everything

😂💀

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

@PhillyD Altman would be the most likely to be a lizard person

[Philip DeFranco 👊🏻 @PhillyD]

The more some of these AI CEOs talk, the more I’m like….maybe they are actually lizard people in human suits.

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

@Braves It's one of those low effort moves that has a 25% chance of hitting big that literally nobody cares about right now because it's not a big name

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

this is whats "destroying gaming" btw- not woke, dei or whatever the neckbeard streamers and sloptubers want you to believe.

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

@CathyG_braves I've been a proponent of there being at least two scheduled doubleheaders per team per month to give teams more off days.

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

Case study # infinity that this country is run by the biggest fucking morons in the world.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Green New Scam where we were scammed. The whole country was, I wasn't scammed. I got it right from the beginning… they were saying wind was so wonderful, so wonderful, except you couldn't, watch your television, they wanted to watch the debate. Donald Trump against Sleepy Joe Biden. Nobody could watch it because the wind wasn't blowing. Remember that?

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

This is beyond idiocy. When one of the pre-eminent health organizations in the world is spreading fucking vaccine conspiracy theories because Karen in Missouri can't get her head out of her ass, people will fucking die because a disease we've mostly eradicated comes back.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

this is the official CDC website btw

we're cooked

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

@JomboyMedia

[Atlanta Braves Chop Live @ATLBRAVESCHOP]

"My take from watching and talking to Ronald Acuña Jr is he is a very passionate guy that loves the game. He is very friendly to all the players, coaching staff and facility staff and fans. Obviously, he has plenty on his mind as he is rehabbing to get back to the #Braves. With all that he takes time out to take photos with Rookie players and talks to them all and even ask me to take photos of them. He doesn't act like he is too good for them rather he treats them as the same. #Bravesteammates."

[Jon McNinch @JonMcNinch]

@youhealedme Same