With respect to CWD, my two fears are/were 1) Will it kill me? and 2) Will it kill all the deer?

With respect to the first concern, every report I have read dismisses any connection with CWD and CWJ, the disease that kills humans. Also, of the millions of pounds of venison eaten, not one case. So I really have no reason to worry. Yes, it could mutate, someday. And I could drive to town today and get nearly t-boned by a tourist that did not see the stop sign (as happened to me) too. But I still drive. One can not live in fear of what might happen.

With respect to the second concern, I think there is still merit to some concern since the models for this disease spread being decimating to a herd requires decades. But I am no expert on this. I just wish that our own DNR would not go nuts on the doe tags in areas that do not even have CWD. This action did indeed decimate our local herd.