I don't think that the West-Coast is cut off from the East-Coast in terms of quarantine or stuff. Remember Col. Kimmet describing how almost all of the US was under heavy outbreak-fire? He even mentioned New York and Chicago as places of the outbreak; therefore it seems to be unlikely that West-Coast to 1.000mi land-inwards (Boulder) would be cut off, while the rest of the US would be cool with bubble-tea-drinking and McDonald-eating looking forward to having an zombified Walt Disneyland all around the West-Coast ...
Anyway: I finally concur - the autopsy of the Little One #2 points at at least some (all?) of them were small children at the time of the outbreak, maybe even babies, although babies in the nursery usually don't have any teeth at all (except for the predisposition under the skin and within their jaws...); so I think it as to be more likely that the little ones 1. gen (first generation, numbered ones) could have been very little to young children somewhere between the age of 1 and 5 years or something ...
I really admired the autopsy btw. And I admit it: I expected things between the Little One jumping to undeadism again on the one extreme and on the other blood-based infections of Riley, the red-shirt-soldier or maybe even Tanya with Tanya proving again that she is all Lord-sent-Angel-from-Heaven being immune to this D&D monster manual stuff ...
The more I listen to #33-3, I don't like the 11 day jump, the 2 hours gap and all of a sudden hell breaks loose, which is why I look forward to the next chapters.
Comparing the cliffhanger in #32-3 I actually expect chapter #34 to be about Fort Irwin and especially Boulder again ... and in #35 and #36 things and main-characters will be connected again ...
All the best!
Liam
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