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If everyone at the CDC quit tomorrow, how hard would it be to create a non-profit and staff it entirely with CDC personnel and resume work? Assuming somehow fun

If everyone at the CDC quit tomorrow, how hard would it be to create a non-profit and staff it entirely with CDC personnel and resume work? Assuming somehow funding could be acquired. What else would be a barrier? Research labs? Some kind of logistical, organizational, etc partnerships? Access to data? What else? I'm half serious.

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tmpz22 2y ago
Where do the funds come from? Zuckerberg? Bezos? They’re not coming from the NIH. Do we crowd fund it? Maybe we create a system where everyone gives a percentage of their income. And we scale it progressively so as not to cause undo hardship to low earners. Eh people won’t go for that. Let’s tax neighboring countries, say 25% of the cost of their traded goods. They won’t retaliate right? Ok go.
- btreecat 2y ago
  Tax ourselves on goods from neighboring countries*
  - jopsen 2y ago
    Yeah, it does seem like a tax hike. It's not like shoe manufacturing is moving to the US. Shoes will just be more expensive. (Until a deal is negotiated, which is probably what he is after)
dinoqqq 2y ago
The annual budget is $ 11.5 billion. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/s0309-budget.html https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/s0309-budget.html
AnonymousPlanet 2y ago
They would be replaced by the incompetent who want to shine in the new limelight. That happened in Germany after the Machtergreifung. The new government got rid of the unwanted in science and mathematics and many others quit in protest. The gaps were quickly filled by science backbenchers and cranks who would get rid of all the theories they didn't understand (e.g. parts of number theory) and replaced them by what they called Aryan mathematics and Aryan this or that, towing the line of the people who got them into their new position.
atoav 2y ago
You are assuming you are still living in a country where laws are upheld. You aren't anymore. So if you do a thing that your betters don't like, they will stop it, legal or not. You assume a democracy, but you are in an authoritarian society. Your only chance is to have significant support by the population and good luck with that when all the popular social media platforms are on their side. The US is fucked if the population doesn't unite against that quickly. And given the self-centered individualism that is so predominant nowadays I say that isn't going to happen.

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tmpz22 2y ago

Where do the funds come from? Zuckerberg? Bezos? They’re not coming from the NIH. Do we crowd fund it? Maybe we create a system where everyone gives a percentage of their income. And we scale it progressively so as not to cause undo hardship to low earners. Eh people won’t go for that. Let’s tax neighboring countries, say 25% of the cost of their traded goods. They won’t retaliate right? Ok go.

btreecat 2y ago
Tax ourselves on goods from neighboring countries*
- jopsen 2y ago
  Yeah, it does seem like a tax hike. It's not like shoe manufacturing is moving to the US. Shoes will just be more expensive. (Until a deal is negotiated, which is probably what he is after)

dinoqqq 2y ago

The annual budget is $ 11.5 billion. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/s0309-budget.html https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/s0309-budget.html

AnonymousPlanet 2y ago

They would be replaced by the incompetent who want to shine in the new limelight. That happened in Germany after the Machtergreifung. The new government got rid of the unwanted in science and mathematics and many others quit in protest. The gaps were quickly filled by science backbenchers and cranks who would get rid of all the theories they didn't understand (e.g. parts of number theory) and replaced them by what they called Aryan mathematics and Aryan this or that, towing the line of the people who got them into their new position.

atoav 2y ago

You are assuming you are still living in a country where laws are upheld. You aren't anymore. So if you do a thing that your betters don't like, they will stop it, legal or not. You assume a democracy, but you are in an authoritarian society. Your only chance is to have significant support by the population and good luck with that when all the popular social media platforms are on their side. The US is fucked if the population doesn't unite against that quickly. And given the self-centered individualism that is so predominant nowadays I say that isn't going to happen.