Fight against COVID-19 hits wall of defiance, suspicion in rural California: 'The excuses just go on'
Jeremiah Fears sat beneath an elk head mounted on the wall of the volunteer fire department in his little city and rolled up his sleeve for what he hopes is a step toward normality: his first dose of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
"If we can get vaccinated and do our thing to protect one another and ourselves, we can hurry up and open and go from there," said Fears, chief of the Corning Police Department. "I know there's controversy behind it. But it is what it is."
Fears had come to a vaccination clinic in Corning — population 7,600 — aimed at firefighters and police officers. But in that fire station was a hint of the pandemic skepticism that runs deep in rural Northern California: two elderly people, both on dialysis, who were coming to get their shots.
They had been put on standby because Tehama County health officials, who only brought two small vials containing 20 doses, suspected they might not attract enough firefighters or police officers to use them all.
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FYI, Rural California = MAGA Country