Former Trump FDA Official Gets Schooled For Saying Being Unvaccinated Doesn't Hurt Anyone

A former spokesperson for the FDA during the Trump administration, Emily Miller, got absolutely pounded on social media after claiming that her decision to not get the COVID vaccine doesn't hurt anyone. That's the exact opposite of how vaccines work, and this kind of selfish and ignorant mentality is what is causing COVID cases to spike in America - mostly in Republican strongholds. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this idiotic statement (which may help explain why she was fired from the FDA after just two weeks on the job.)

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A former spokesperson for the FDA during the Donald Trump administration, who actually only served two weeks on the job before she was fired, woman by the name of Emily Miller took to Twitter this week to basically attack anybody who gets the vaccine and to protect the rights, I guess, of the anti-vaxxers. And she said, my decision not to get vaccinated does not affect anyone else's health. My decision not to get vaccinated does not affect anyone else's health. Um, hate to break it to you there, Emily, but that's actually why vaccines exist, not just to protect you, but to protect everybody else's health. This is a public health crisis. Yes, your decision to not get vaccinated affects every single person that you come in contact with, whether it's your family at home, whether it's your coworkers, whether it's the people that you pass in the aisles of the grocery store, every single person you come in contact with is affected by your decision to not get vaccinated. And we're starting to see arguments like this pop up more and more like, you know, my body, my choice, which is in idiotic way to put this. But that's what they're saying. And they're saying it's a personal decision. It's not. I mean, we've seen a lot of NFL players just in the last week, come out and say, well, I'm not going to answer that. It's a personal decision.

No, no, this is actually not a personal decision. This is a public health decision. And unfortunately, each individual American gets to make that decision on how to handle the health of literally everyone else and that's why we're in the situation that we're in today. I'm starting to see these arguments more and more on social media and it's absolutely driving me crazy. Because again, this isn't just a decision about your health. It's a decision about whether or not to add to already strained hospitals and emergency rooms. That's the decision you're making. It's a decision about whether or not to become a carrier of this disease. It's a decision to put the burden of your health on the backs of everyone else's. That doesn't sound like a personal decision to me, that sounds like a lazy, selfish decision being made by these individuals and that is the message I want to get across. I understand some people cannot get vaccinated. I get that. I understand that too many others, however, are being swayed by misinformation and right-wing talking points. That's lazy. That's selfish. We are watching as hospitals, hospitals here in Florida, hospitals over in Texas hit capacity, telling people if you have an emergency, you can't come to our ER.

Oh, and by the way, we have to cancel all scheduled elective surgeries because we no longer have the room. We no longer have the manpower. Both those things, by the way, are happening in the state of Texas this week. So sorry if your appendix bursts somebody like Emily Miller didn't want to get the vaccine. But hey, their decision only affected them, right? No, folks, there is this ripple effect. Think about that for a moment. If a hospital is at capacity and that is the only hospital within 50 miles of where you live if you're living out in rural Texas, right? Your appendix burst, you have an unfortunate accident with farming equipment stuff that actually happens all the time.