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I walk everyday about 45 minutes from my farm down the highway to Love's Truck Stop/McDonanlds and back. I usually stop at the back of the McDonalds next to the drive thru lane for a couple minute break before heading back home. I have never worn a mask on these walks. Ever.

A couple of weeks ago, a lady with a mask on, in her car by herself with the windows rolled up and latex gloves on, pulled up next to me in the drive thru lane and rolled her window down to tell me I needed to wear a mask.

I calmly told her that just the night before, the county commissioners had voted that people no longer had to wear masks in public anymore. She looked confused and flummoxed and said I could be infecting people with the virus and she was going to report me. To whom I don't know. It's a rural area with no police, just an occasional sheriff's deputy. And I know all of them by their first names.

Nobody really enforces all of these "rules" out here in the country because most people know each other. And this county is not very high risk for the Covid-19 being contracted anyway. Last time I heard, we had 2 or 3 hundred cases total and only 2 or 3 deaths, all of those in the big city 40 miles away.

Of course, the county commissioners had not voted to allow the public to stop wearing masks when this lady confronted me. I made that part up. 😂

BTW, she had a Biden 2020 bumper sticker on her rear bumper. Wouldn't ya' know.....

We bought a retirement house in North Idaho a couple years ago and it's a lot like you describe. The Coeur d'Alene Press today has an article about COVID in North Idaho:

There have been two new cases of the coronavirus reported in the Panhandle Health District since Friday. PHD reports there are a total of 70 cases, with 66 in Kootenai County and four in Bonner County. Boundary, Benewah and Shoshone counties still have no cases.
Sixty-seven of the cases are no longer being monitored. As of Wednesday, only seven of the 70 cases have resulted in hospitalizations.
There has not been the feared outbreak of cases since restaurants, salons and gyms reopened Friday, May 15.
Gov. Brad Little’s reopening plan for the state allows bars to open May 30.

Kootenai County is where the "big city" of Coeur d'Alene is located (population 51,000 - the TEN northernmost counties in Idaho have a total population of 330,000). The Panhandle Health Districts #1 and #2 have had zero deaths.