COVID stole the heart of my family. It also divided it

[Shrek]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-26/covid-stole-heart-of-family-get-vaccinated

This year, I thought hope had come in the form of the vaccine. But I had family members who didn’t trust it, others with excuses for why they didn’t need it.

Meanwhile, they kept working essential jobs. Like many whose extended families fell to the virus, their work could not be done from the safety of their homes. So the risk never faded.

My grandma was not vaccinated — not of her own will — and I fear it is a decision that will haunt my family and evoke anger for years.