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.
Friend just look at the past. Wisconsin. Cwd for 13 years. They first found it they killed every deer they put their eyes on year round. Today they are overpopulated with deer and have all but dropped Cwd testing. Waste of money they say! Wind Cave elk herd. 50% positive in that herd and they out grew their fences. States cuts them untested animals free on public land to be shot by hunters. No threat to hunters or land they say! There is not 1 place in the country that Cwd has done harm to the herd! Now you talk your DNR, EHD, Wolves and such and your herd is gone!