Daily Mail: 'LA will never be completely open until we have a cure': Mayor Eric Garcetti sends terrifying warning to Angelinos one day after health director extended county lockdown by three months
* LA Mayor Eric Garcetti gave a rambling interview with GMA Wednesday
* He backpedaled on comments made by LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Tuesday
* Ferrer said stay-at-home orders would 'with all certainty' be extended for the next three months
* Garcetti said Ferrer simply meant 'health orders telling us to cover our faces and physically distance' would continue
* But he then said LA will 'never be completely open until we have a cure' - something medical experts have warned will take many months
* Garcetti's backtracking sparked yet more confusion among LA residents with many taking to Twitter to voice their frustrations
* Anti-lockdown protesters marched on his residence Saturday calling for an end to stay-at-home orders
* LA announced another 961 cases and 45 deaths on Tuesday taking its death toll to 1,613 - making up more than half of the 2,882 deaths across California
The mayor of LA has sent a terrifying warning to Angelinos that 'LA will never be completely open until we have a cure', one day after the county health director extended its lockdown by three months.
Mayor Eric Garcetti gave a rambling interview with Good Morning America Wednesday in which he attempted to play down the lockdown extension through to August but sparked yet further confusion among angry residents over when it will reopen.
Garcetti backpedaled on comments made by LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Tuesday. She had said stay-at-home orders in LA will 'with all certainty' be extended for the next three months.
He said all she had meant was for people to 'cover our faces, physically distance and that you're safest working from and staying at home'.
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WNU Editor: It will take a year to 18 months until a vaccine is developed, and a few months more to manufacture, distribute, and train people to administer it. And that is if they do succeed in developing a vaccine. In short. The mayor is basically saying that schools and non-essential businesses will be closed until 2021 or longer. Talk about destroying your economic base and causing incredible harm to hundreds of thousands of people. Harm that will probably be far worse than what the pandemic may bring. Here is an easy prediction. I give it a month or two and there will be a blow-back against the mayor that has not been see for a long time if he stays committed to this course of action.
