Name: Despite draconian lockdown measures, Los Angeles is now the nation's hottest spot for COVID-19 infections
Brand: theblaze.com
SKU: theblaze-com-619
Availability: OnlineOnly

critic

Despite draconian lockdown measures, Los Angeles is now the nation's hottest spot for COVID-19 infections

preview

Please verifyResetSubmitFailureLos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Like Blaze News? Get the news that matters most delivered directly to your inbox.By all accounts, Los Angeles and its surrounding areas have consistently had some of the strictest — if not the strictest — lockdown measures in the country. They were of the country to institute a "stay at home order," one of the last areas of the country to partially reopen this summer, and one of the first areas to institute mask mandates and strict lockdown measures when COVID-19 began to see a resurgence in the winter. In fact, while most of the rest of the country has at least resumed some of the activity that was paused by lockdowns even as winter has driven case numbers higher, California instituted a nighttime curfew in late November and Los Angeles instituted a second stay-at-home order on Nov. 27, making it one of the few jurisdictions in America to do so. While almost every other county in America has had some measure of in-person learning in schools, Los Angeles schools (as well as schools in the rest of the state) have remained stubbornly closed.Los Angeles has also taken harsher enforcement measures against individuals and businesses who do not comply with the coronavirus lockdown orders, levying huge fines and even threatening utility cutoffs for businesses and residents who don't comply.None of it has helped — nor, for that matter, has Los Angeles' famously moderate climate. Los Angeles has experienced a , and the virus shows no sign of slowing down. Hospitals in the county report that . Los Angeles County is, by all accounts, the current epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. County officials seem mostly content to double down on the measures that have thus far failed to contain the spread of the virus, even going so far as to issue recommendations for Los Angeles residents . They are also mounting a full-court press to convince the public to actually abide by the coronavirus guidelines, even though their most prominent . According to most recent estimates, have been infected with the novel coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. Los Angeles public health experts have on its population density, as well as massive "pandemic fatigue" and refusal to comply with regulations on the part of the public.Most recentRecommended© 2022 Blaze Media LLC.All rights reserved.Get the news that matters most delivered directly to your inbox.By signing up to the Blaze News newsletter you agree to receive electronic communications from Blaze Media that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content.© 2022 Blaze Media LLC. All rights reserved.

Please verifyResetSubmitFailureLos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Like Blaze News? Get the news that matters most delivered directly to your inbox.By all accounts, Los Angeles and its surrounding areas have consistently had some of the strictest — if not the strictest — lockdown measures in the country. They were of the country to institute a "stay at home order," one of the last areas of the country to partially reopen this summer, and one of the first areas to institute mask mandates and strict lockdown measures when COVID-19 began to see a resurgence in the...

public

Leon Wolf

theblaze.com

Credible

Speculation

Anecdotal Evidence

Generalization

Stacking the Deck

Appeal to Authority

Straw Man

Slippery Slope

Emotional Appeal

Red Herring

False Dilemma

Illogical

Moral Equivalency

Ad Hominem

Correlation w/o Causation

Semantics

Begging the Question

Faulty Analogy

Non Sequitur

Bandwagon

Dogmatism

Failing Occam's Razor

Biased

Pure Opinion

Hit Piece

Racial Bias

National Bias

Religious Bias

Financial Incentive

Political Agenda

Gender Bias

Misused Image/Video

Study Misinterpreted

Mistake

Misused Term

Science Misrepresented

Factual Error

Satire

Surface Level

Lack of Reliable Sources

Sensational

Not Credible

Investigative

Balanced

Well Sourced

Great Context

sports

entertainment

U.S.

international

business

technology

science

culture

politics

media

health

Despite draconian lockdown measures, Los Angeles is now the nation's hottest spot for COVID-19 infections

No article scores yet.

CRITIC REVIEWS

PUBLIC REVIEWS