People were going outside with masks on, driving alone in cars with masks on, wearing masks with their noses uncovered, wearing bandanas that couldn't strain out a bacterium. The commonest masks were a joke. Mask wearing, unless you had an N95 and wore it correctly, were merely an exercise in virtue signaling. As to distancing it was also pretty much of a joke. Churches had to be closed because of contagion transmission but big box stores were just fine. Mobs of protesters were fine too but going to grandma's funeral or even a priest providing her Last Rites was too risky to allow.
I have yet to get Covid. I was considered 'essential personnel' with documentation so I worked through the closures and went to all sorts of places. I finally rebelled against mask wearing as I couldn't breathe sufficiently with a mask on. I did use what I learned from previous infectious control work, which doesn't exactly boil down to 'social distancing'. Social distancing was basically social alienation where granny basically got to die alone.