Our Wyoming place is near the Idaho border, and we've bought our last three pickups at a small town dealership in eastern Idaho. Once a year I treat my truck to a dealer visit, the rest of the year an oil change place like Jiffy Lube does the trick. Yesterday was the expensive dealer visit day.
What I write about is that, in small town rural Idaho we saw exactly zero people wearing face masks. Not the dealer's employees, nor its customers, nor the people working at the fast food place we stopped at for soft serve cones afterwards. We wore our masks, but then we're in the high risk age group. Everybody else? Zip, zilch, nada. Not even the two other oldsters we saw. Maybe they've gotten tired and quit.
By contrast, the very Democrat town of Jackson, WY, has mandated mask wear for pedestrians on their crowded streets or in the shops. They've posted electronic signs to that effect at each of the town's three entrance roads - it's the law. We're there about once a week and the rule is widely followed.
In our own small town, mask wear is mostly something older folks do, and a few younger tourists. Based on a really small sample, I'd guess the rural Mountain West is getting on with its post-Covid life. Whether the virus will cooperate is yet to be determined.
