I couldn't get the link to open, but got there by going to the portal and using rose rosette to search (as New York has been very quiet about RRD).

Is it worth trying to straighten out some of this?

Anyway:

The RRD vector is not the same mite as the one that causes leaf curl; Jim Amrine has tested and the one that lives on the edges of leaves is different ,although related.

Transmission by pruners has never been proven in scientific tests.

It takes longer than two years for RRD to kill a mature rose bush and longer than that for a mature R. multiflora to die.

300 feet removal of R. multiflora is nowhere near far enough.

Author ignores the factors of wind directions.

Author ignores that some roses can be saved with early action.

Author makes no sense in the comment that Henry glomed onto. How in the heck can one check out rootstock for RRD? No way.

At least now we know some additional parts of New York State that need to worry and parts of New England down wind from them

It takes longer than two years for RRD to kill a mature rose bush and longer than that for a mature R. multiflora to die.

I am seriously beginning to wonder about this one, at least around here.

Last summer was the first time I saw RRD on the wild roadside multiflora. It seemed to be coming from the north, Albany, rather than the south, NJ. This year, the only RRD I've seen has been on two cultivated bushes, both hybrid wichurana types. Maybe it is too early in the season, but at this point in time it really looks like all of last year's infected canes died. And this was not after what I would call a 'real' winter. It has a couple of weeks to put in a reappearance because we are running out of summer.