Not true. Multiple studies showing infectivity from saliva, environment, horizontal, etc. I’ve talked to the researchers who have conducted some of those studies
I’ve been practicing the scientific method for 35 yrs - the baiting ban is absolute HOGWASH
It wildly exaggerates the minuscule additional transfer risk due to baiting.
Deer “swap spit” every day all year long. CWD is simply going to have to genetically sort itself out. The deer that are resistant will eventually win out. And it will work itself out … if NDGF doesn’t go forth with retardedly culling the infected herds should the CWD prevalence hit their randomly chosen trigger threshold. Let the infections happen. The sooner it runs its course the better.
Your comment in that recording about “putting your big boy pants on and doing what’s right” (stop baiting) is malarkey IMO. That statement reminded me a great deal of the non-scientific thought process of the fear-motivated lemmings during COVID. 90% of what people did to themselves or their neighbors and families either accomplished NOTHING - or even caused great harm. Why? Because people chose to blindly listen to the authorities, who stood to gain from the policies they put forth or chose to go along (just following orders).
And they often admonished those who didn’t buy into it. Sound familiar?