LOS ANGELES —- The City of Angels is now under a total and complete lockdown with everything shuttered amid spiraling COVID cases and deaths. According to mayor Eric Garcetti —- residents are now required to stay in their homes and aren’t permitted to even travel. The order issued states, however, that getting or ordering groceries; medications, and those things are permitted — however they’ll be closely monitored by police.
View the mayor’s PDF file for exceptions and more by clicking here.
‘My message couldn’t be simpler: It’s time to hunker down. It’s time to cancel everything. And if it isn’t essential, don’t do it.’
‘Don’t meet up with others outside your household. Don’t host a gathering, don’t attend a gathering and follow our targeted safer-at-home order, if you’re able to stay home, stay at home. Just be smart and stay apart.
Non essential businesses are now totally closed to the public but beaches oddly enough will remain open to the public as will certain hiking trails. The homeless are exempt from the orders.
‘Our City is now close to a devastating tipping point, beyond which the number of hospitalized patients would start to overwhelm our hospital system, in turn risking needless suffering and death.
‘These unfortunate facts about the spread of COVID-19 in our City mean that we must resume some of the more restrictive measures we instituted in the Spring. The way to avoid that dreaded scenario is clear.
‘We must refrain from gathering with people from outside our household wherever possible. Angelenos have shown what is possible when we cooperate, listen, and protect our family, friends, neighbors, and favorite businesses.
‘This most recent surge in COVID-19 cases presents us with an opportunity to work together, again, to reduce its spread and flatten the curve. We must minimize contact with others as much as possible.
‘Even if you believe that the virus does not present a particular threat to you, consider the impact that your choices have on others.
‘Because COVID-19 can be transmitted by someone who is unaware that she is carrying it, one person could be unknowingly infecting many people if she is not careful. The better we are now at staying apart, the sooner we will be able to come back together,’ the order reads.
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