Don't Tread On Our Medical Freedom

Let's stop using recycled pandemic outrage to drive legislation that violates our rights.

Imagine getting so frustrated with mask rules in a California grocery store that you pack up and flee to Idaho — where almost no one enforced those mandates, to begin with. You rejected President Trump's Operation Warp Speed vaccine rollout and ignored most of Idaho's already minimal COVID restrictions, and now, years later, you’re still mad. So what do you do? You gather your political outrage and demand that Idaho — your new home — pass laws to settle scores with your California problems.

That’s what Senate Bill 1023 is: a performative backlash not to Idaho policy but to leftover grievances from the Left Coast. And it’s being used to attack Republican legislators and rational policy decisions made four years ago during a global crisis.

Now imagine these same political transplants are so consumed with anger that they want to abandon constitutionally protected property rights, erase local control, override business autonomy, and force private companies to serve people regardless of the …