COVID is a drug that these health official just can’t get enough of.
They want you to be afraid because through fear they can do things that most citizens would not normally tolerate.
The Wisconsin State Department of Health Services released its updated guidance for deer hunters on Monday saying “Hunters are always encouraged to use good hygiene practices when processing animals to reduce their risk of exposure to many possible disease agents. Incorporating a few additional measures can also help to reduce their risk of possible exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus."
And that includes wearing a facemask.
So they are telling hunters to wear a facemask even though they admit that “according to the CDC, there is no evidence that wildlife, which includes white-tailed deer, are a source of COVID-19 illness for people in the United States, or that people can get COVID-19 from preparing and eating hunted game meat.”
Notice below “wear a mask”, they are telling hunters not to ‘eat, drink or smoke” when processing as well.
“As COVID-19 spread through the human population in 2020 and 2021, some researchers began looking for the disease in other species. They found SARS-CoV-2 in mink, otters, tigers, lions and non-human primates, mostly in captive settings, and white-tailed deer both in captivity and in the wild. It's not clear how deer contracted the virus, but the researchers in the Iowa and Ohio studies suggested there was spillover of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to deer with deer-to-deer transmission also occurring...
The risk of animals spreading SARS-CoV-2 to people is generally considered to be low and close contact with an infected person is still the most likely way a person would be exposed, according to DHS...”
Gotta love the response the USA Today reporter got from one Wisconsin hunter when they asked him about wearing a mask to processing his deer.
“When told Monday about the updated DHS recommendations, Jim Smukowski, 52 of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 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)."
He's right.