Coeur d’Alene, ID – Thousands of citizens are flocking to Washington to escape Idaho’s overly permissive stance on the use of masks to fight COVID-19. While residents of Washington are strictly required to wear masks in public, Idaho does not have that restriction.
“Idaho needs to be more like Washington and just tell me what to do,” said Misty Gunderson. “If nobody tells me how to live my life, I get anxious and very nervous, you know? Please tell me to do something.”
Gunderson takes daily trips across the state line to wear a mask. “I now drive to Spokane so I have the blissful pleasure of wearing a mask when I go to the grocery store. Sometimes I drive just over the border to Liberty Lake and sit in my car for a few hours so I can wear my mask without shame,” admitted Gunderson. “When I’m in Washington, people give me a thumbs up when they see my mask. In Idaho, I get another type of finger.”
However, some Washington residents are uncomfortable with how many people are coming into the state just to wear masks.
Joey Maltrone, a lifelong resident of Spokane, doesn’t like it. “You can’t go anywhere anymore without seeing someone sitting in a car with Idaho plates, wearing a mask. It takes me one hour to drive a couple blocks now when it used to take a minute or so,” said Maltrone. “Nobody is stopping them from wearing those embarrassing masks in Idaho, right? So just wear your silly mask there, that’s what I say.”
Gunderson disagrees with this view. “This is America and if I want to wear a mask in your state, you can’t stop me. When you go from such oppressing freedom in Idaho to the freeing oppression of being forced to wear a mask in Washington, you know what liberty truly is,” said Gunderson. “So if Washington forces its citizens to wear a mask over their bottoms to fight coronavirus, I’ll be here the next day showing my covered butt to everyone and loving every minute of it. Thank you Washington! USA! USA!”
