hell it's almost a country within a country. pretty sure LA is more populated than places like portugal and sweden. except much more dense, obviously.

currently the virus is finding pockets of unvaccinated. the public health experts here said this would happen a couple weeks ago. palmdale, lancaster and inglewood account for most of the new cases in la.

personally, i'm going to avoid packed indoor bars and restaurants until we see how things play out with this variant. we'll probably have a better idea a week or two after the 4th.

* it's important to note that anytime a news story talks about LA, they are talking about the entire county of 11 million, not the city of LA. i think the there is something like 4 million residents in the city of LA.