[logi_cal869]

Well, duh. They’re headlong into winter.

They’ve not seen the worst of it....unless they quickly adopt the “tin-hat” treatments which have been so successful here for the open minded.

[RC one]

I think that's the problem. They have already adopted the tin hat mentality and now the chickens are coming home to roost and they have the more contagious variant to deal with now so their Wave 2 is looking much worse than their wave 1.