The "CWD is a HOAX" movement is building

[brocksw]

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As I reported in my blogs on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) management in Wyoming in the sprin

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Edit: I should add, I'm starting to see this message promulgate more and more through media. Forums, FB pages, articles, conferences, etc. This is a serious movement and may have political ramifications for wildlife agencies whom are viewed as "pro cwd".

 

[Bigjay73]

At least one commenter has a clue

 

[ClearCreek]

I am not sure how much of a "hoax" CWD is. I have watched the white-tail herd on the ranch we hunt go from numerous deer to basically nothing over the past 10 years.

Fifty percent of the WT bucks we have taken over the past 10 years have tested positive for CWD.

Total deer numbers (WT and MD) have declined by 90% on this ranch.

ClearCreek

 

[3855WIN]

Game agencies are making a major effort to slow the spread. There is no other plan. We’ve already seen how well that type of plan works.

 

[3855WIN]

We need to remember that CWD, or something very similar has infected camels in North Africa and reindeer in Norway. That leads me to believe that it has always been in nature.

 

[brocksw]

 

[Elkmagnet]

People tend to believe what they think will benefit them.

 

[brocksw]

People tend to believe what they think will benefit them.

Or it's identity politics.

 

[Elkmagnet]

Or it's identity politics.

We can agree to agree.

 

[Chama Grande]

The author seems like the kind of guy who became an expert in epidemiology during the first two weeks of March 2020. Nothing is real, back to the woods I go

 

[VikingsGuy]

Over the long run, Darwin will have the last laugh. As I have said before, humans have jumped the shark

 

[Gellar]

Game agencies are making a major effort to slow the spread. There is no other plan. We’ve already seen how well that type of plan works.

I went to a meeting in September the Iowa Dnr hosted because we live in a CWD zone. It was literally the same scientific info and action plan they’ve been presenting for 10 years since the CWD was discovered in Iowa. There were only about 8 people from the public and several of them were giving the poor DNR guy a hard time, he was young and not prepared for it.

 

[Hunting Wife]

FFS. We are doomed as a species.

It really gets to the point where I hope it kills them all. Then we can be “100% sure”.

 

[mtmiller]

The author seems like the kind of guy who became an expert in epidemiology during the first two weeks of March 2020.

Nice little side hustle from his Sales gig.

 

[Boondocks]

We hunters and gun owners have seen a long incremental attack on our sport and erosion of our liberties by media and academia. Seems to me exaggerating CWD is another tool to that end.

 

[Nick87]

I went to a meeting in September the Iowa Dnr hosted because we live in a CWD zone. It was literally the same scientific info and action plan they’ve been presenting for 10 years since the CWD was discovered in Iowa. There were only about 8 people from the public and several of them were giving the poor DNR guy a hard time, he was young and not prepared for it.

First one I went to down here was a hair away from violence and I'm not excagerting.

 

[Nick87]

@Hunting Wife do you think its always been around?

 

[brocksw]

@Hunting Wife do you think its always been around?

Statistically impossible. Every single deer would either already be dead or be infected by now.

 

[Hunting Wife]

@Hunting Wife do you think its always been around?

Absolutely not.

Edit: sorry, that was jaded and pissy. I should elaborate. The typical pattern has been that states have been testing for decades with zero detections. Then, they suddenly detect a case. Then a couple more. Then over another decade or more we can watch the geographic spread and rising prevalence. That is not how it would play out, over and over again, if CWD had always been there. We have watched it climb up to 50% prevalence in some cases just in the time we have been observing and testing. With growth like that, there is zero chance it would have gone undetected for so long, and still has not been detected in so many places.

 

[Chama Grande]

Nice little side hustle from his Sales gig.

Part time at T Mobile