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In parts of rural Michigan, the vaccine may be free, but it is harder to sell
Where farmland stretches from Monroe to Cass County along the Michigan-Ohio line, mistrust and fear play into willingness to take COVID-19 vaccines.
Kristen Jordan Shamus and Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press
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5:33 pm UTC May. 24, 2021
Cassidy Johnson sat on a stool at a high-top table at the Spin Clean Coin Laundry in Monroe, waiting as her clothes sloshed inside a high-capacity washing machine.
She was resolute about COVID-19 vaccines. I have not taken it, and I will not take it, said Johnson, 33, of Monroe. I already have an autoimmune disease and definitely will not be putting something else in my body that I don t feel like needs to be there.
Recently, Boyd showed the knives he makes at the Holiday Bazaar at the Joseph Community Center.
âI started out with knives. Theyâre my bread and butter,â he said last week. âBut I do a lot of actual blacksmithing work, making blacksmithing tools and decorative hooks, bottle openers, horseshoes, gates and all sorts of metalwork.â
The 19-year-old has been operating his business for about two years out of a shop at the home of his parents, Rick and Robin Boyd, in Lostine. He started learning about blacksmithing about three years ago from Alec Steele on YouTube, a young man about Boydâs age in the United Kingdom.
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