Wisconsin health officials recommend hunters wear a mask when field dressing deer

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 15 Nov 2021 | Paul A. Smith

[DUMBGRUNT]

Due to findings of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer, Wisconsin health officials have added a few planks to their recommendations to hunters this fall, including wearing a mask when field dressing deer.

The list includes three new measures: wearing a mask while field dressing deer; limit cutting into and handling the deer's lungs, throat, and mouth/nasal cavity to only what is necessary (for example, submitting a head for CWD testing);

No deer in Wisconsin have yet been tested for the virus.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention there is also no evidence people can get COVID-19 from preparing and eating game meat.

When told Monday about the updated DHS recommendations, Jim Smukowski, 52 of Oconomowoc, was taken aback.

"Say what?" said Smukowski, a deer hunter for 40 years who is planning to hunt this week in Richland County. "I think we've got bigger fish to fry. I won't be wearing (a mask)."

[DUMBGRUNT]

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely" Said an old white guy.

[RBW in PA]

Quick, we need a mandate stating all Deer must be vaccinated.

[Navy Patriot]

We’ll know there’s something to this if Wisconsin taxidermists start dropping like flies, otherwise ...

[mewzilla]

Where are the links to the studies purporting to show that it’s SARS-CoV-2?

Anyone got a link to one of these so-called studies?

[mewzilla]

Even the FDA hasn’t got evidence of zoonotic transmission.

[Liz]

P

[Mozilla]

Take your mask and shove it.

[Parmy]

I have heard that there is no real test for the virus. And, that the test they have been using is highly inaccurate.

[Lockbox]

until the deer are fully vaccinated, the deer need to wear masks!

[DJ MacWoW]

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[MotorCityBuck]

I can't get close enough to them to mask them, but if have tomatoes for them...Guess Blue ain't there color.

[for-q-clinton]

Wait, masks protects others though. This makes no sense.

[dsrtsage]

It would be a shame because f the deer got covid

[cgbg]

Does my dog need a mask when chasing squirrels?

Maybe I should ask one of those “experts”.

Bwahahahahahaha.

[mewzilla]

The enemedia is going nuts with the Bambi spreads the coof stories, and talks about studies.

But I can’t find any of these studies the enemedia keeps talking about.

[Bonemaker]

[rx]

Petty, hired-on clerks seeking relevance in their “profession.”

[Carriage Hill]

This’ll go over like a fart in Church, with Wisconsin’s 300,000+ hunters.

[Linda Frances]

We have many deer hunters around our land but not on our property; We only allow bow hunting. Two days ago my husband found a wounded deer on our property. He called the game warden and was told it was ok to kill him with his bow. When my husband went back and the deer was dead. He hung it (on his tractor) until he could clear out his Morton building. My son wants deer jerky so my husband kept it.

Anyone know how to find out if this deer had covid? My husband and I both had covid and sure don't want it again.

[Rennes Templar]

When they find it in turkeys, we’ll get a turkey-cooker mask mandate.