This topic gives me chills! My two cents:

I live on the main access route to a minor league baseball stadium, and in the past, the noise of the traffic leaving a game was always noticeable. Well the games are back, fireworks and all, but the noise of a cheering crowd and leaving traffic are unnoticeable now? I kinda figured people were just staying home from fear of the beer bug, but maybe not. Maybe this is something much darker ?