The "stay at home orders" in the USA were so unenforced, they were jokes. Politicians wanted to seem like they were doing something so they rolled their eyes and enacted these half-assed "orders", making sure to forget to have the police enforce them. In CA, our brilliant governor told everyone to wear masks and avoid restaurants, then went out and had a fun maskless restaurant outing himself.

Most people I know took stay-at-home seriously, but enough people didn't that it was totally ineffectual.