Headscratchers / Days Gone

• Okay, maybe Gameplay and Story Segregation is in effect here, but how did it take so long for Weaver to come up with napalm? In the field the ingredients are a bigger bottle, cloth, kerosene, and styrofoam. So... Weaver figured out how to mix styrofoam and kerosene? It’s not exactly a secret nowadays, and definitely shouldn’t be a difficult thing for someone with a background in chemistry, as Weaver claims to be. Compared to Sarah’s idea to engineer a virus that attacks the Freakers specifically, Weaver’s whole project feels very underwhelming.
  • Considering that Deacon has to see a blueprint of how to make a nailbat before it can be crafted, perhaps the folks in this world are a mite dense.
    • I think in the case of making nailbats and other weapons, it's more a sense of out of sight, out of mind. Additionally, I think it really just makes Deacon realize what exactly he needs, as you can't pick up nails or styrofoam until you know that you can use those items for crafting. As far as Weaver goes, I think he knew that he needed styrofoam, but that's kind of hard to find in a post-apocalyptic wasteland until a scout tells him where he might find some.
• So has everyone who's still alive developed herd immunity? Catching the virus from contact with the Freakers never seems to be a concern for anyone, even though Deacon gets in extremely close physical contact to Freakers on multiple occasions. This is despite the virus being virulent enough to spread rapidly across the globe during the initial outbreak. If this is the case, it'd explain why Jim and the Clovedale survivors were so hellbent on killing anyone approaching them; they'd been locked down in a sealed location for two years, unlike everyone else they didn't "survive" the virus and develop immunity, they just avoided the outbreak entirely and are still vulnerable to it.