ABOLISHCDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Trust is a resource. 2020 spent a lot of it.

Official story

What they claim to do

Protects public health by tracking and preventing disease and injury.

Ground truth

What they actually do

Its COVID-19 guidance shifted repeatedly, including on masks and school reopening. In 2022, its own director acknowledged failures in the pandemic response and announced a major overhaul. It runs on an annual budget of roughly $9 billion.

The libertarian case

Public health needs honest data and local decision-makers who answer to their communities, not a single federal agency issuing one-size-fits-all guidance for 330 million people. Let states and cities compete on outcomes and publish the data openly.

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