Posted on 12/12/2021 5:40:53 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
Evidence that COVID “vaccines” could be linked to increased prion disease cases surfaces
Glass half full. I’m tired of dodging dear grazing on the road.
CWD didn’t just start in the 90’s, it’s always been around and the Whitetail population is higher than it’s ever been.
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Deer are more plentiful because people have stopped hunting them. That’s because human populations have become more dense, and anti-firearm discharge laws have proliferated.
Deer are herbivores and therefore prey. We cull their predators because they also prey on humans. There’s no easy answer.
The more we test, the more we keep finding. Seems familiar.
It’s been around longer than I have (7+ decades) and always seems to flare up when populations get to dense. Back in the 60’s we had to go over 100 miles to the south to find an area that even had whitetails, now they get into my shrubs during the fall. We even have Muledeer in the county now. They just keep expanding and forming dense pockets. You can’t drive a half mile down the backroads and not see a deer blind and feeders set up. I’ll see 30 to 40 deer a day on the ranch and it’s 5 miles south of the house.
“Taking control of the food supply being the goal.”
Backyard gardening is growing exponentianly especially among millennials. Farm to home transactions as well (Bypassing the stores)
If the gov’t is tring to take control they are losing...badly
I have been sitting in a deer stand all morning in East Texas and I haven’t seen a single deer. It must be chronic wasting disease. Or I am a bad hunter. I did put down two feral hogs yesterday.
These people do not consider it losing. They take note and then, step by step, they come up with reasons to eliminate/prevent success. Sure, farm to table is excellent and that is precisely why, at some point, will be regulated into elimination.
In my county here in Texas we’re allowed to take 5 deer a year. When i was a kid there were no deer and our first open season we were allowed 1 buck only. I believe the biggest change in population at least for Texas has been feeders. Anybody with an acre or more nearly always has a feeder within viewing of the house. Some may shoot them but most just like to view them. My sister feeds about 20 regulars at her house and she never shoots one. This has made a big difference in not just deer populations but in Feral Hog’s, White Wing Dove and Eurasian Dove (Feral Dove, much bigger than any native species). We create fake foods rich, year round enviroments and the animals take full advantage of it. The Eurasian Dove have almost run off the native and we have no set season for them, They can be hunted year round with no limit. yet the population keeps growing. I think everybody’s aware of the Feral Hog problem we’re facing here in TX, they can now be found in every county in the state.
“Wildlife officials in several states are warning of new cases of chronic wasting disease”
Not just deer being infected with that, and video games don’t help.
Come to my house. There are a dozen 12-pointers just laying in the yard.
old Walt Disney changed everything when he made little animals with big eyes talk ... the gullible ***** fell for it ...
No joke here, really. This disease has insidiously spread, untreatable especially in wild herds, and long term fatal. If susceptible animals died quickly, disease would be self limiting, but long and chronic disease has more ability to spread unnoticed.
Sadly, this is not new disease, and is not covid. Research is on going, but because of slow progression of disease, difficult to track. Also, funding for veterinary research in non-food animals is limited.
Millions wasted on covid, barely find hundred thousands for CWD. Hunters may be the salvation.
CWD is untreatable in any infected animal, captive or wild.
Sad fact—there is no cure.
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Sad indeed.
https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/what-are-prions.html
The big questions are how and why a non-life form reproduces in a body. My opinion is that prion research will reveal how human amyloid diseases like tremor and Alzheimer’s take hold in the brain.
Gypsy Moth Caterpillars.
Their populations increased dramatically over years, then, they all just DIED!
We haven’t had an infestation since. In fact, now when they just start to make a comeback, BOOM! They like explode. I don’t mean in the increase in numbers “expode”, I mean the grenade type of “explode”.
Deer have increased in my area. Almost hit one the other night, “grazing in the road”. Actually it was crossing the road to get to the other side.
I slammed/JUMPED on the brakes harder than I ever have before, just missing hitting it by a whisker.
Anti-lock breaks worked well, no skid marks and I did miss hitting the deer.
I didn’t test it for COVID or CWD, no time, but I almost had it all over the front of my Durango.
DON’T PICK UP WOMEN AT THE BAR
Deadly deer disease
Mad Cow Disease?
No, you’re thinking of foxes, dogs, and cougars. The definition of each depends on your blood alcohol level.
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