I live in a smallish foothills town in Northern California, and things are fairly sane here. It's much more red here, but unfortunately the large coastal cities seem to control California. Stores here post "masks required" signs, but then you go inside and most people aren't wearing them. No vax mandates for kids here either. A lot of schools here have operated all along in the last 18 months. We've been going to restaurants that fought to stay open and going to our gym the whole past 18 months. This state is a bit schizophrenic and we have a lot of counties that all behave differently, but all the main craziness is in LA and SF and other coastal areas. A lot of Northern California wants to split off from the rest of the state, and if that could ever happen (unlikely, though), it would be red.