Reap day gone wrong

It should have been the day for the residents and workers of the Freedom Farm to reap their weed, smoke out, and relax. Instead they wound up hiding from...well, something.

Reports remain unclear and unconfirmed. I'm not going to say zombies. There MAY be a viral-type infection, spread by bodily fluid. As yet there are unsubstantiated rumours and sightings ONLY.

Up at the Farm, some people are unaccounted for, others have been seen looking infected.

People keep insisting on disappearing out of their safe places, usually on their own. Clearly these aren't the smartest stoners in the world. Some are currently missing after leaving alone.

I'm being sent tips, reports, all sorts. I'm being offered  articles, work, etc. For some reason no other journalists seem to be in this feed. I don't know why, or if they are and I just don't know. But I want what I'm seeing here, whatever it is, to be available to everyone - so I'm turning down all the work, and I'm gonna put everything I can up here.

Right now we have Lenny in the "party" tent, with Maple and Boosh who were there but left, separately and alone, and are currently missing.
A lady I've not met called Victoria is unaccounted for, as is another possibly called CQ.
In the garage is currently Rose and Renaldo, Peter was there but left on his own.

A little while after I got here, at almost midnight my time, so I guess 4pm their time over in California, Peter who had been out raced back in with some video of two of the workers looking infected.
The tent has seen some freaky looking shadows on the canvas, but nothing concrete.

4hrs into this now, I think. Some of the guys are getting punchy, some insecurities are coming out, there's a few friendly chatters though.

Trying to remain disconnected. It's hard, though. I know I have to, as a reporter and all, but I want these folks to be ok.

If I can help them or others by openly spreading the word, that's what I'll do. It's probably all I can do. Whatever this is it's real - there is something, I think - it's not zombies, but it's something.

Also - if the sightings/rumours/etc coming through the wire are anything to go by, whatever it is - it's not isolated. Not to the Farm. Not to California. Not to the US...

A few of my questions so far:
What is it? If it is, as seems most likely, a viral infection, can there be a cure?
Drugs seem unlikely, given the spread - but drug or viral warfare? Could that be a possibility?
I believe there are people dissecting and researching those who have already died. It seems that disrupting the motor functions by crushing the skull or stabbing into the forehead are workable solutions. It also seems certain that this thing acts like an aggressively fast and violent-causing form of alzheimers: removing memories, personality, leaving only the feral primitive.

All of this is hearsay, there is NOTHING CONCRETE yet about any of it. What caused it, where it came from, how it works, what it is, if there's immunity.
What's the incubation period? We don't know yet, nobody has started counting at the moment of somebody coming into contact with infected bodily fluid yet.

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