Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti released new COVID-19 lockdown restrictions as more and more cases of the illness pop up in his city, reaching  new record highs.

According to the city’s public health department, there are 414,185 total cases to date, with a whopping 6,000 reported on Wednesday with less than a month to go until Christmas.

“It’s time to hunker down,” Garcetti stated in a video released on Wednesdsay. “It’s time to cancel everything, and if it isn’t essential, don’t do it. Don’t meet up with others outside your household. Don’t host a gathering. Don’t attend a gathering.”

The new year brings hope –– for vaccines and for stopping this pandemic.

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But here's the truth: we're in for a long, hard winter.

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As the worst hits us, stay home as much as you can. Cancel any non-essential activities.

Hunker down, L.A. We'll get through this together. pic.twitter.com/6TkVsTfPzP

— MayorOfLA (@MayorOfLA) December 3, 2020

via Fox News:

The order, effective immediately, requires all city residents to stay home, unless engaging in a list of essential activities, and all businesses to cease operations.

Public transportation and gatherings are prohibited with the exception of gatherings for outdoor religious services and outdoor protests with social distancing and face masks.

Essential activities include health care operations, grocery store visits, farming, social services, media and music production, plumbing and electricity work and so on, according to the order.

“Our City is now close to a devastating tipping point, beyond which the number of hospitalized patients would start to overwhelm our hospital system, in turn risking needless suffering and death,” Garcetti’s order reads. “These unfortunate facts about the spread of COVID-19 in our City mean that we must resume some of the more restrictive measures we instituted in the Spring.”

It should be pretty obvious by now that lockdowns and masks are proving to be very ineffective at controlling the spread of the coronavirus. We’ve tried this route before.

Clearly, it failed to accomplish what it was supposed to accomplish. So why do it again? That makes no sense. None at all.

Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? Because that’s exactly what Garcetti and many other mayors and governors are doing.

This is all about power, folks. That’s the only explanation for why this is being tried over and over again.