It’s Republican lawmakers who are driving such repeals, while Democrats are solidly pro-lockdown. Thus they’ve become the Party of Fear, as was the GOP back in the Fifties, when they used “the international communist conspiracy” to empower themselves. In any case, it’s worth noting that, today, the “free states” are mostly in the South. https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/republican-lawmakers-in-kansas-repeal-mask-mandate_3761115.html