Los Angeles Mayor Warns Of Mass Death & Months Of Isolated Quarantine
While the city is currently undergoing a safer-at-home emergency order, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti now warns of mass death and additional months of isolated quarantine to come.
On Wednesday (Mar 25), Mayor Garcetti told Business Insider that he’s against “premature optimism;” expecting the quarantine to last “at least two months, and be prepared for longer,” plus an irreplaceable loss of life.
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He says, “Giving people false hope will crush their spirits and will kill more people. This will not kill most of us. It will kill a lot more people than we’re used to dying around us.” Later he adds, “It will be our friends. It will be our family. It will be people who we love dearly. And everything I do is through that lens.”
A day prior, on Tuesday (Mar 23), Garcetti warned that the city could see the same fate as New York City within 6-12 days; that being a surge in cases looking to overwhelm the health system.
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The publication cites that as of Tuesday afternoon, LA County public health officials confirmed at least 662 cases of COVID-19, with 11 deaths; actual numbers are presumed to be higher.
Sharing closing remarks, he says, “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 we will have. Will we have hundreds of thousands of deaths, or tens of thousands of deaths? That’s what keeps us up.”
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