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Ernie Coffman wrote:how do we get others to understand this major problem?
GroundquestMSA wrote:Ernie Coffman wrote:how do we get others to understand this major problem?
We don't. Because it isn't.
Ernie Coffman wrote:From the last three posters, I guess I'd better crawl back into a hole and admit that what I wrote was just in reading and observing pictures. So...CaveMud, OhioCaver, and TNCaver are all saying that decon isn't happening, so I stand corrected.
bigredfoote wrote:Hopefully people who aren't deconning are staying in the same region and not travelling. With the news of the Washington bat today, we are faced with the fact that WNS could be in areas we don't expect it and it is even more important that we decontaminate.
LukeM wrote:When it comes to caving within your local area, be it WNS saturated or WNS free I don't see much point in doing decon, other than as a display of empty piety as Jonah calls it.
However, When it comes to travelling between affected and unaffected regions what, exactly, is so difficult about throwing your gear in some hot tap water? I see people mentioning chemicals in this thread so maybe they didn't get that years old memo that decon can be essentially the same as simply washing your gear. I get that there's a minuscule chance that you're actually preventing something bad, but it's also incredibly easy, and gets your stuff nice and clean besides.
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