Reports: Los Angeles Hospitals at Capacity, Turning Away Ambulances, Planning for Rationed Care as COVID Death Toll Mounts

Breitbart ^ | 12/29/2020 | Rebecca Mansour

[ChicagoConservative27]

Los Angeles area hospitals are at a breaking point due to the coronavirus pandemic in Southern California, where the mounting death toll has overwhelmed intensive care units and led to contingency plans for possibly rationing care.

Though coronavirus hospitalizations are stabilizing in parts of California, patients are still overwhelming hospitals in a large swath of the state, leading California Gov. Gavin Newsom to warn that the state must brace for the effect of a “surge on top of a surge” from recent holiday travel.

[Wuli]

“Don’t believe me, look at a map or satellite imagery, LA and it’s surrounding crammed in cities are solid concrete, homes and streets and freeways for 140 miles long by about 50 miles wide...From Dozen Oaks to San Diego..”

The satellite imagery has little to do with the facts on the ground.

Get out of Los Angeles county and you are not in the “Los Angeles area” in multiple geographic, landscape, social and cultural ways.

[Zathras]

Most likely scared mothers getting their children tested and tested.
I know one from Sacramento who has had her family tested 3 times.
Always negative

[dragnet2]

LA is S. CA, and has been considered that forever. Ya got a bunch of imaginary lines on a map...That’s all that separates any of it. Learn it.

[dragnet2]

Get out of Los Angeles county and you are not in the “Los Angeles area”

Yes you are. Regardless of what ya call it, LA/S. CA there is no difference. I could drive someone who'd never been in LA to Anaheim, and they wouldn't even know where LA began or where LA left off. This is not complex.

[ssfromla]

Somebody please go check that out. I don't believe for one minute that's true.

Send in the cameras. Wish I was there. I want to go do it for them .

[Lisbon1940]

I guess it is not as bad as LA, but from my experience it is pretty bad.

[minnesota_bound]

Are the democrats blocking HCQ?

[vg0va3]

I’ll let you know in my obituary.

[Wuli]

“Yes you are.”

You don’t know what you are talking about.

I grew up in southern California, from the mid 1950s on.

I witnessed all the favorable and unfavorable changes since then, including with frequent visits to friends and family who are still there over the years since I moved from there - about 1970. None of those friends and family live in the Los Angeles area and all are very glad they do not.

ALL of southern California is not Los Angeles, not even Los Angeles county.

[Wuli]

I repeat. You don’t know what you are talking about.

[dragnet2]

You’re in New Jersey and telling me about the LA area? Funny stuff. I forgot more about that region than you ever knew. Whether you like it or not, people have been referring to S.CA as LA forever and for good reason.

Once again, I could take someone from LA to Santa Ana and they wouldn’t know where LA started or stopped. It all looks the same and it’s all connected together. Are you so ignorant ya can’t understand that?

[Wuli]

You really are ignorant aren’t you.

Just take a look at what all constitutes SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA and try in your ignorance to keep stating it’s all the same. The only one’s you will fool are those who are as ignorant about ALL of southern California as you are.

Now, you have expected your definition of ALL of southern California as L.A. and Anaheim. LOL

As I sad, I may not live in southern California anyone longer, but I grew up there and with frequent visitation there since the 1970s and family & friends who still live there I am intimately familiar with ALL that southern California has.

I could take someone from Trenton to Ft. Lee and in their ignorance and judging only what they seem to see from the highway they could make the statement that they never left one whole area. Of course they would be wrong, as are you.

[dragnet2]

I see, you were in LA in 1970 and vacation in LA so you're the authority? You're joking right?

Of course you're not an expert and you pretending to be is absurd.

I could put Ma and Pa from Hacksaw Arkansas in a vehicle, drive them from LA to Santa Ana or Riverside or whatever, and they wouldn't have a clue when we left the LA City imaginary line.

Tell me, besides an imaginary lines on a map and directional signs put up for tourist like you, what's the difference visually between LA and say Pico Rivera, Santa Ana or Pomona? Let me give you a clue, there is none. It's solid concrete, buildings and massive traffic and endless crowds. People who've never been to these venue would never know the difference driving from one venue to the next. This is not complex.

[dragnet2]

Just take a look at what all constitutes SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

You tell me. I've got to hear this!

[rolling_stone]

if you get down to san diego, there is 25% chance english speaking employees in gas stations vs 5% in LA..i use my wayz app in spanish in LA...

[dragnet2]

Since when did all of southern California become the “Los Angeles area”?

Since forever. People from that area consider everything from Thousand Oaks to San Ysidro, LA. It's all concrete, people, buildings, homes and streets from the Mexican border to Santa Monica Mountains...It's one big city, jammed with about 25,000,000 people, with only imaginary lines separating the cities.

And to prove my point, take a good look at this advertisement slick. It's not my advertisement btw...lol

Once again, just to penetrate your thick skull...LA has always been associated with S. CA. You're just too ignorant to know it.

[dragnet2]

Since when did all of southern California become the “Los Angeles area”?

Since forever. People from that area consider everything from Thousand Oaks to San Ysidro, LA. It's all concrete, people, buildings, homes and streets from the Mexican border to Santa Monica Mountains...It's one big city, jammed with about 25,000,000 people, with only imaginary lines separating the cities.

And to prove my point, take a good look at this advertisement slick. It's not my advertisement btw...lol

Once again, just to penetrate your thick skull...LA has always been associated with S. CA. You're just too ignorant to know it.☺

[dragnet2]

I remember many years ago you could drive from the LA area to San Diego at 75 mph. Once ya left San Clemente there was nothing until hitting the San Diego population center. Try that now...It’s bumper to bumper with concrete and buildings all the way. Nowadays there is virtually nothing but Camp Pendleton that separates the LA area from San Diego and even now it’s all being built out.

[Wuli]

Generally speaking southern California is all of the counties of

A. Los Angeles,

B. Imperial County (from the eastern border of San Diego County to the Arizona border and lying south of Riverside County);

C. Orange County (between L.A. County to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the west, Riverside County to the east & San Diego County to the south);

D. San Bernardino County (from Ontario north to a line that runs to a point not many miles above Ridgecrest, from there east all the way to the Nevada border, south along that border to the Colorado River, along the California-Arizona Colorado River boundary to just below Parker, Arizona and back east to Ontario - a space of over 20k sq miles);

E. Riverside County (from it’s northwest corner near the I-15 & Cal Hwy 60 junction, south along the I-15 to not far below Temecula, then east along the northern border of San Diego & Imperial counties, all the way to the Arizona border);

and

F. Ventura County (on the west from about Point Magus State Park along the coast to not far above Mussel Shoals, then a near straight line north into the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge area, then east almost to I-5, then south almost to highway 101, and west back to the Magus State Park area).

The land size and DIVERSITY of B., C., D., E., and F. DWARFS Los Angeles County.

Your idea that “southern California” IS “Los Angeles” and that the two are synonymous is just idiotic.

Some choose to also include Santa Barbara County, which is north of Ventura County, as part of southern California. But generally it is seen as neither really southern, central, or northern California, having more relationship with the central California coast from Santa Barbara up to Montery than anywhere else and it is not much related to the central interior farm country up to Sacramento.

Many seeking to escape L.A. but remain in California head north to the area from Santa Barbara up to San Luis Obispo, if they have the means and if staying in California is that important to them.

No just go away you twit.

[Wuli]

I am through with you.

Your opinion is founded on your imagination.