It's also funny how Finland has a concept of "thermic spring", which is defined by the temperature no longer dipping below 0° C, and the term doesn't exist in English because the definition wouldn't work in the climate of most of the English-speaking world.
It's helpful to tell people that they are in uncharted territory and can't rely on running on autopilot even if you don't have a new map to give them. Whether they can make their way or not is unclear, but the first step is just making sure they understand that they're now in a place where they need to make their own way and can't fully rely on existing maps. Otherwise they might not even realize they need to start asking "am I doing the right thing right now" by themselves.
Archive.today does not seem to have worked for people connecting from Finland since mid-January, it just gives an endless captcha loop. Is this related to whatever this drama is?
Reading old SF without a nostalgia factor is weird. There are all sorts of things just off with the unspoken assumptions of the author, and the extrapolations built on those make the whole story seem skewed. This one looks like it was meant to work as a literal story as well as an allegorical one. Now that it's too dated for that, the allegorical part gets bogged down in the detailed explanations of arithmetic by hand and is a bit vague on exactly what the people who don't bother are missing.