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'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre (www.msnbc.com)

submitted 4 months ago by cyrano@piefed.social to c/science@lemmy.world

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Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[-] wampus@lemmy.ca 69 points 4 months ago

The USA is simultaneously broadcasting to militaries around the world that America is going to ignore the Geneva convention/greenlight warcrimes, and they're dismantling the infrastructure that would've been used to defend themselves against biological weapons.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

What does the Geneva convention say about war crimes committed against a nation that also commits war crimes?

[-] dick_fineman@discuss.online 14 points 4 months ago

Article 7, Section 2: "I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you".

[-] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

It doesn't

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 4 months ago

They get recorded as being super polite citizenry.

Source: check out Canada's and Poland's public record.

[-] ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 2 points 4 months ago

This would be the perfect time to release a last of us fungus or zombie virus stockpiles

[-] wampus@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

Or bovine ebola, to devastate the USA's beef supply. I imagine that an America that suddenly has no burgers would sober up fairly quick. The massive super farms / agriculture concentration areas make it an easy target.