Will Tourists Return to Idaho Where Masks Were Required? More evidence the COVID-19 outbreak was more about virtue signaling than science. Mask mandates in Idaho’s few blue islands are dropping like a BASE jumper off the Perrine Bridge. Boise Dev has a piece about the summer tourism outlook. Places such as Blaine County and Boise, long holdouts on local mask mandates, want to get back in the tourism game. Meanwhile, parks around Idaho were packed. Places where people could go and breathe clean air without obstruction. Note: Last summer a local politician told me he went to Ketchum and walked around without a mask. No one scolded him. I should mention he’s a big man and skilled in combat! Meanwhile, all around him were people with the lower portions of faces covered. These mandates obviously kept some people away. It’s why a trip I was planning to neighboring Utah 15 months ago is still on hold. I didn’t want to be bothered by restrictions on my personal liberty. You can wager people made similar decisions on some tourist hot spots here in the Gem State.