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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Latino family lost a father to COVID-19. The obituary blamed the 'carelessness of politicians.'
Kristin Urquiza, 39, was grieving over the fact that her family could only allow about a dozen people at the burial of her father, Mark Anthony Urquiza, after his long battle against the coronavirus.
"It was so heartbreaking my father deserved to have his entire community there to put him to rest," Kristin told NBC News about the service on Wednesday, in Phoenix, Arizona. "We have a really large Latino family, and culturally, when there's a funeral or a wedding or a birth, we like to come together."
But while her family reluctantly held a small ceremony, "I think that elected officials and the governors can make tough decisions to make sure that we keep as many Arizonans as safe as possible," she said.
While many families have publicly expressed their grief in the last few months over the deaths of their loved ones from coronavirus, the Urquiza family has touched a nerve for publicly stating their anger and blasting elected officials for what they see as inactions that have deadly consequences.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-latino-family-lost-a-father-to-covid-19-the-obituary-blamed-the-carelessness-of-politicians/ar-BB16DWN5?li=BBnb7Kz
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)"government" instead of Republicans, I figure they either voted Republican or refused to take a stand to stop them.
Those who vote Democrat know the great differences between them and Republicans and don't make this mistake.
Understandable if this person is in a mood to blame but not enough to blame those in her family who earned it. But it's not okay to smear Democrats by associating them with Republicans. We have a huge election coming up. If she was going to speak out, she should have summoned up the guts to do it right.
malaise
(268,686 posts)and call their names starting with the Con and mother's boy.