Are You Going?

A couple days ago, my neighbor, Dr. Archie O. Logist, professor of Phenomenology at the Ganister Technical Institute, posed a question to me that I had posed to some of my friends this fall. “Are you going to hunt deer this season?” he wondered. “With the game commission telling us that 33 percent of the deer they tested from our area were infected with CWD, you might be taking a chance of killing one that has it.”

“But, the commission tells us that there has been no definite risk of people contracting CWD from eating meat from an infected deer,” I replied.

Before I could say another word, he...