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In related news, Idaho’s legislature is getting closer to approving the very first broad medical freedom law in the country. The Idaho Capital Sun ran the story headlined, “Idaho House passes revised ‘medical freedom’ bill, after tense debate.” Idaho Governor Brad Little vetoed a previous version of the bill, which would ban local governments and businesses from requiring citizens to get any particular medical treatment to obtain services.

In response to the Governor’s veto, Idaho’s House and Senate have been diligently working on veto-proof replacement versions. Yesterday, the House passed its bill with a safe supermajority; the Senate is still working on its version.

Critics, the article explained, worry that the bill would make it illegal for businesses to eject someone who’s throwing up blood all over the cashier’s station. Nobody seems to know the answer to that freakish possibility. I would argue there’s risk in everything. Let’s just try it and see whether that becomes a legitimate concern.

The two stories —Trump’s gain-of-function order and Idaho’s tenacious medical freedom bill— evidence the strength and persistence of public backlash to pandemic overreach. This isn’t over. It’s not even close to being over. Public health and its pseudo-scientific collaborators will rue the day. They should self-deport to France. I’d even kick in to cover the plane fare.