# Mayor of Los Angeles Projects 56% infection **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 20, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867 "2020-03-20T04:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/1 "2020-03-20T04:16:26Z")
What makes Los Angeles so different from China? Does he know something we don’t? That would be over 25 million in Ca!!! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/2 "2020-03-20T04:24:42Z")
[From what I’ve seen, it’s Newsom, not Garcetti, who is making the 56% projection.](https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/governor-projects-56-of-californians-may-be-infected-with-coronavirus-in-next-8-weeks/2289281/) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/3 "2020-03-20T07:08:56Z")
He also said that many of the infected might never know it, having no major symptoms. Anyhow, welcome to lockdown, rest of California. Kiss your traffic good bye. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/4 "2020-03-20T09:07:58Z")
I’m hearing similar projections in Australia, if we don’t manage to keep control. A 56% projection implies that it gets out of control, or is already out of control. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/5 "2020-03-20T11:07:21Z")
Maybe China isn’t being totally honest with the numbers? That’s one rumor anyway. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/6 "2020-03-20T11:36:35Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Maybe China isn’t being totally honest with the numbers? > > That’s one rumor anyway. I think that may be the case. But China literally welded people into their homes to contain this thing. I have no doubt they did other things that would be unthinkable (and for good reason) in the US. So I think people should be careful about extrapolating too much from China. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/7 "2020-03-20T13:13:15Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I think that may be the case. > > But China literally welded people into their homes to contain this thing. I have no doubt they did other things that would be unthinkable (and for good reason) in the US. > > So I think people should be careful about extrapolating too much from China. With a population the size of China it is hard to believe that the containment could have been so effective. If it was in fact been that effective as soon as it is relaxed they will have another wave unless it has already run through the country. At any rate it is almost certain many times more people were infected than we know which would make the virus considerably less dangerous, ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/8 "2020-03-21T21:18:36Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Maybe China isn’t being totally honest with the numbers? > > That’s one rumor anyway. China is handling the epidemic as a political crisis, and suppressing all discussion and reporting, but production is resuming. Either 60% of their population has already recovered from COVID-19 with no symptoms, or their epidemic is contained for the present without 60% infection. This doesn’t require that China is being totally honest. Eventually the world will go to 60% infection, or a vaccine will be developed. California will go to 60% infection if a vaccine is not developed first. California will go to 60% infection before a vaccine is developed if it’s already too late, or if social distancing and isolation are not effective in California – a place that is culturally distinct from both Wuhan and Venice. One possible outcome is that one day, 2/3 of all our kids will get COVID-19 infections when they are young, just like any other cold, and only the few who miss it when young will get a serious case when older. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/9 "2020-03-21T21:43:27Z")
One possible outcome is that 1/19 of all our kids will get the disease and turn into unicorn mooses with a penchant for bad puns. Another is that recovering from COVID-19 doesn’t convey any kind of immunity from future infections. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/10 "2020-03-21T21:50:47Z")
The governor of NY said he expects infection rates of 30% to 60% (if I recall correctly) So 56% is in that range (although strangely specific) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/11 "2020-03-22T00:09:11Z")
I’m sure he got it from one of the thousands of prediction models being passed around. For all we know, LA is ALREADY 56% infected. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/12 "2020-03-22T01:02:34Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > But China literally welded people into their homes to contain this thing. I have heard this rumour, but it makes no sense from a logistics perspective. Do you have an authoritative source for it? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/13 "2020-03-22T01:24:29Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > I have heard this rumour, but it makes no sense from a logistics perspective. Do you have an authoritative source for it? Two videos: > > **[Hoodsite - Hoodsite.com](https://usacrime.com/hoodsite/)** > > Hoodsite and hoodsite.com was an uncensored crime news and gore videos shock site which reported on real life events. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-los-angeles-projects-56-infection/849867/14 "2020-03-22T01:47:46Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Two videos: > [https://twitter.com/TimLinFreedom/status/1223661647727693825](https://twitter.com/TimLinFreedom/status/1223661647727693825) > > [Hoodsite - Hoodsite.com](https://hoodsite.com/china-authorities-welding-doors-shut-of-apartment-buildings-with-residents-inside-to-impose-coronavirus-quarantine/) Thank you. I remain skeptical, but I can’t dismiss it out of hand. (Skepticism: I can see people welding doors in the videos, but I don’t know why, and the second one clearly cuts “don’t force us into lockdown” footage with random door welding. Surely locks would be easier and cheaper to install and remove? But what I don’t know about China would fill libraries, so maybe…)