Yep, in Coeur d’Alene people locked down for about two weeks and then decided “to heck with it” and life went back to relative normal except for the constant Fauciganda. Masks were only required at Costco. Few locals masked and you didn’t see it really until tourists and snowbirds started coming back in the late Spring/early Summer of 2020. Most locals didn’t mask unless forced to at work or at Costco. North Idaho was generally a bastion of relative sanity in a sea of stuipidity, especially up in Bonner and Boundary counties.
The downside is we got inundated with people from Washington State. Our little Hayden Lake never had so many boats!
At this moment, I’m sitting my doctor’s waiting room in Palo Alto, CA. We still have mask requirements here! They keep telling me “Masks are required” and I keep saying “That’s nice”
Same her in Payette County. We live in Payette on the border with Oregon, and the only time I was required to wear a mask was when I went into businesses like Home Depot and Walmart in Ontario across the border.
At the time I never missed a day of work as I remodeling and old theater to convert it into a convention center in Ontario, but the guy I was doing the construction for never required me to mask.
Like you up North, life pretty much went on as normal for us.