I was out and about today for work, I saw hundreds of people, and two masks. Rural Indiana largely ignored mandates, with the smaller cities mostly playing along, barely half-heartedly.
Since election time however, most everybody's been done with it. Like other places, people are tired and want normalcy. With the idiots in charge, and rhinos being outed everywhere, even fewer people have patience like before.
It's been beautiful, mid-70s, and not many people care about masks.
For myself, I talked my mother out of getting the vaccine with evidence from everywhere. My dad still wants it, but he will come around eventually.
They're flying this month for the first time in over a year, both retired. Nervous about getting covid-19, they still haven't got it, it's understandable, they're old. :-)
I travel through rural Indiana and like you say, even at the peak people in the small towns didn’t wear masks. People passing through who did wear a mask got some strange looks.
I ran into a major supermarket in an Indiana city today. Masks signs were gone, but the store recording was still saying customers should wear masks. Probably 90% still were wearing masks. But no one gave me or the other 10% a hard time for not.