It's really just a conjecture, because I can't prove it. It's just the only thing that makes sense to me with what we're seeing. It still has holes.

[Haha, holes. But more seriously...]

Like, where are all the people? If some of them died here, why are not subject to the same weird cycle? And if they are, where are they? We only saw those dead people on the boats earlier, but those are the only ones. Where are the rest of them? The whole city can't have fled.