L.A. Mayor Garcetti Says Residents Will Be Confined to Homes For “At Least Two Months”
Posted at 7:15 pm on March 25, 2020 by Jennifer Van Laar
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti shows a Memorandum with COVID-19 city departments guidelines, as he takes questions at a news conference in Los Angeles, Thursday, March 12, 2020. Garcetti closed City Hall to the public and banned all events or conferences on city-owned properties for more than 50 people. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
In an interview with Business Insider Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said that the 4 million-plus residents of his city should be prepared to confined to their homes for “at least two months, and be prepared for longer.”
Garcetti also spoke out against “false hope” in the face of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
[He] pushed back against “premature optimism” in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying leaders who suggest we are on the verge of business-as-usual are putting lives at risk.
“I can’t say that strongly enough,” the mayor said. Optimism, he said, has to be grounded in data. And right now the data is not good.
“Giving people false hope will crush their spirits and will kill more people,” Garcetti said, noting it will change their actions, instilling a sense of normalcy — and normal behaviors — at the most abnormal time in a generation.
“I think the main horrifying thing that I think is keeping every local leader awake is the projection of how many people will get this, the projection of what the mortality rate will be, and how many dead will have,” Garcetti said. “Will we have hundreds of thousands of deaths or tens of thousands of deaths? That’s what keeps us up.
“It will be our friends. It will be our family. It will be people who we love dearly,” he said. “And everything I do is through that lens.”
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Los Angeles was at 812 as of 2 P.M. Wednesday, up from 662 at noon on Tuesday. The number of coronavirus-related deaths stood at 13 on Wednesday, up from 11 on Tuesday. Before the pandemic was declared, Los Angeles County’s ICU beds were already at 90 percent of capacity.
Poster Comment:
This seems to be why aerial photos from space show smog levels are reduced now. Not so many cars on the road.
#1: Darkwing To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Darkwing posted on 2020-03-27 12:27:28 Reply Private Reply
#2: BTP Holdings To: Darkwing (#1)
That requires them to leave the house.
At the moment the place I work is closed due to the virus stuff. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-27 12:45:21 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-27 12:55:15 Reply Private Reply
#4: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#3)
Mexicans and blacks make up a great portion of the population of L.A. proper. Whites have basically fled to the suburbs just like in Chicago, Detroit and New York and most major cities across the country.
But in Chicago, they tore down all the CHA projects and moved them out to subsidized housing in suburbs. My sister told me she knew a woman out in west suburbs who is a cop. She told her, "Things are not the same as they used to be."
Where the drug consumers are, the drug dealers follow. :-/
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-27 16:28:20 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-27 17:50:30 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#5)
That is possible. It has been many years since I have been there. They keep building more bypasses further out. First it was I-294 toll road. Then they built I-355 further west since there was more building going on. The metropolitan area keeps expanding.
My Dad worked for the City of Chicago at one time looking for apartments that would accept subsidized housing. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-27 18:01:45 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-27 21:01:10 Reply Private Reply
#8: Fred Mertz To: Darkwing (#1)
A friend of mine orders his from the local grocery store, Kroger, and they even deliver beer. First three deliveries are free and then $9 flat fee after that; tipping is permitted. You have to plan a day or more ahead depending on delivery times available/demand. Apparently it's a popular service in these trying times.
Edit: He had 98% satisfaction on his order. Only frozen OJ was unavailable and don't ask me if they provided a substitute because I don't know.
Fred Mertz posted on 2020-03-27 22:58:04 Reply Private Reply
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StraitGate posted on 2020-03-27 23:19:23 Reply Private Reply
#10: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#7)
They keep gobbling up farmland in the process. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-28 07:24:10 Reply Private Reply
#11: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#9)
LOL! To each their own, but the benefits of 'em are unbelievable.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-28 07:46:35 Reply Private Reply