
Caution tape. It’s our visual prompt to stay away.
We are conditioned to see it at crimes scenes, construction zones and natural disasters.
Where we are not used to seeing it is at playgrounds, skate parks and wrapped around a bear statue at the La Brea Tar Pits.
Welcome to the Southland in the age of the coronavirus outbreak, when stay-at-home orders have given new life and purpose to caution tape.
Torrance
Santa Monica
San Diego
Mid-Wilshire

Thousand Oaks

Venice

Sherman Oaks

Encino

South L.A.
These are some of the unusual new scenes across the Southland during the coronavirus outbreak.
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