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All the prion diseases listed have long incubation periods, but you knew that didn’t you?

All the diseases listed have frank, overt, and horrific symptoms in their advanced stages, but you knew that too, didn’t you?

I assume you also know that Chronic Wasting Disease in deer is spread from deer to deer, I also assume you know that deer don’t customarily eat each other. They do doo-doo and deer doo do contain enough prions to contaminate feed and fields.

But by all means don’t let that stop you from advocating moving deer from contaminated areas to clean ones. California could use its own outbreak, that would certainly serve those eeeeeeevil hunters right for *sob* shooting BAMBI’S MOTHER!!!! BooHooHooHoo!!!

All the prion diseases listed have long incubation periods [...] All the diseases listed have frank, overt, and horrific symptoms in their advanced stages [...] Chronic Wasting Disease in deer is spread from deer to deer

You are painting an apocalyptic picture of a massive epizootic outbreak. You may be right about all that, but still I don't understand why a police operation had to be carried out against one fawn while thousands of other deer are massing in the forests?

don’t let that stop you from advocating moving deer from contaminated areas to clean ones

I have mentioned that it is illegal, for a good reason. The shelter shouldn't have tried to break the law. If the illness has a very long incubation period then there is no way to be sure. The simplest solution would be to take the fawn and release it in a nearby forest. If he makes it, good for him. If not, such things happen too.

I want to stress that this is not about a deer. It's all about humans. Humans that had good intentions; perhaps they were wrong. That does not explain why volunteer workers had to be "raided with armed agents, detained." What is the chance that they, or the deer, shoot back? What is the chance that one of those workers runs away? (If he does, so what?) A mighty force of one cop and one vet would be more than sufficient. If that's not enough, the cop has radio. The massive police response to a minor incident is the problem here, not the deer. Most of the article is about humans that were hurt by the police. The conflict has moved past the fawn long ago - it's now between the workers and the LEOs.