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    Gustavo Arellano: How do you show up en masse to celebrate Grandma's birthday without killing her with COVID-19?

    by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times Oct 16, 2020 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - There was no question that my dad's side of the family would celebrate the 98th birthday of our matriarch, Angelita Arellano, which happened on Oct. 1.

    OK, there was one: how?

    We're a tamborazo-loving, food-crazy, hug-addicted clan where a family party of some sorts - wedding, baptism, quinceanera, or carne asada just for the hell of it - seems to happen every weekend.

    But Los Angeles County, where nearly all of my dad's side of the family lives - my siblings and I are the weirdos who ended up in Orange County - is still under strict coronavirus lockdowns, spontaneous Lakers celebrations notwithstanding. And none of us wanted to kill Grandma - which we call her as much as we do abuelita, because assimilation - after she's lived almost a

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