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My sister booked the appointment the day before in less than 30 minutes. No nightmares with crashing appscreaky websitesout-of-stock vaccines or deluded protesters like most Southern Californians have shamefully suffered so far. What places he visited besides his socially distanced Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Any time he messed up or babbled nonsense, I put him in his place, and he would stay there. Part of the problem early on was that the coronavirus was opaque to him. Through the summer, Papi personally knew no one who had contracted the coronavirus.

Toxic masculinity is a hell of a preexisting condition to have during a pandemic. Too many of us, Latinos and not, have had to deal with it, to the point of broken friendships and strained familial ties.

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Two of his cousins died from it, followed by too many friends and conocidos acquaintances. I figured the tragic turn would finally scare Dad straight. You see, Dad told us, a compadre told him that vaccines had chips that would track you forever. The radio said people die after the first shot. And those were some of the more plausible pandejadas pandejo -related stupidities he offered. We four Arellano kids collectively rolled our eyes and got him on a waiting list for the vaccine the second we could. We promised him the whole thing would be simple: The vaccination site would be at an Albertsons parking lot in Santa Ana, Fayher a minute ride from his Anaheim home. We just needed to fill out a short form detailing his medical history, and show up at I nodded along as I cooked a quesadilla on the comal and my siblings stayed in their room. Once the flour tortilla had toasted properly, I let him have it again.

What about all his friends and relatives Fatehr had died? Did God not take care of them as My Father Got For Me Did they not have strong blood, or optimism? Your kids and grandson and year-old mother, whose hugs he misses. On the drive to the vaccination site, I reminded Papi of the smallpox scar on his arm. Its irregular, sunken shape always puzzled me as a child, and he always equivocated whenever I asked about it. My late Mami Click here it to me early on: how smallpox and polio were Fathe scourge in the small villages where both of them grew up in the highlands of central Mexico.

And how everyone hailed the arrival of vaccines when the two of them were children. I told Papi that his scar proved that vaccines are good and effective. I also mentioned how my mom always took us kids to all our vaccinations with pride. Medicine and doctors are meant to help people, after all. Medicine helped Click fight ovarian cancer as long as she did.

Papi was in a better mood when we finally got to the vaccination line.]