Dude didn't have a clue that that rose, that he held up, had had RRD for several years. There were a number of witches brooms in the twiggier parts. That dead cane comes at year four or five. (And the leaves aren't wilted, per se, they are skinny and somewhat chlorotic and might look as if they have the beginnings of PM.) To say "As soon as" would be funny if it weren't tied to not noticing aberrant growth several years before. I think the video is from Little Rock, Arkansas rather than Atlanta ( but I understand everything south of the Mason Dixon Line is easily confused for some folks.)

The link below leads one to a number of videos made at the 2015 Rose Rosette Eradication Conference presented by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SXbOcHF84M Unfortunately I cannot view the video, only the audio. I am posting this to see if someone can actually view the video and also tell us what to change so that the videos will be viewable.

I have not checked all of them, but it appears that at least some of the videos are reachable from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzh5_FT7dBw

I'm also horrified at the outdoor testing. I had always assumed any such testing would be done in a greenhouse. My gosh, they're the researchers. They KNOW the mites spread on the wind. "Irresponsible" doesn't begin to touch it. How about "thoughtless, careless, wrong-headed and criminal"? Even if they were to find 50 resistant varieties, it's not worth it if they have doomed every downwind rose for hundreds of miles. Maybe "aghast" is the better word for how I feel.