[OutsiderFan]

This may be a is a massive oversimplification, but it seems to me, based on the totality of information I have synthesized and can consider at the moment, that the best alternative available is this:

Have the Governor, County Health Officers, and Mayors tell people this is still a very dangerous situation. You are very likely to get this virus if you don't stay away from crowds, wear masks, etc. If you are in poor health you want to stay away from others as much as possible.  But even if in relatively good health, if you have bad health insurance coverage and don't want to experience big medical bills as a result of a 2-week hospital stay, you too should avoid others. We'll issue guidelines to businesses to limit infection transmission and will allow them to open, but you take your life and the lives other others you care about in your own hands based on the decisions you make. Act accordingly.

This way you can open things up but basically scare the crap out of people so they won't be as inclined to engage in activities that increase infections and virus spread.  I think we've seen plenty of evidence people just being scared works just about as well as ordinances to keep things shut and people in their homes as much as possible.

Just continue publishing new cases and deaths, show the public where the virus has been detected, and that should go a long way to making people come to the conclusions they need to make. You always get more buy-in when people decide on their own what they are going to do by drawing their own conclusions.

[OutsiderFan]

This may be a is a massive oversimplification, but it seems to me, based on the totality of information I have synthesized and can consider at the moment, that the best alternative available is this:

Have the Governor, County Health Officers, and Mayors tell people this is still a very dangerous situation. You are very likely to get this virus if you don't stay away from crowds, wear masks, etc. If you are in poor health you want to stay away from others as much as possible.  But even if in relatively good health, if you have bad health insurance coverage and don't want to experience big medical bills as a result of a 2-week hospital stay, you too should avoid others. We'll issue guidelines to businesses to limit infection transmission and will allow them to open, but you take your life and the lives other others you care about in your own hands based on the decisions you make. Act accordingly.

This way you can open things up but basically scare the crap out of people so they won't be as inclined to engage in activities that increase infections and virus spread.  I think we've seen plenty of evidence people just being scared works just about as well as ordinances to keep things shut and people in their homes as much as possible.

Just continue publishing new cases and deaths, show the public where the virus has been detected, and that should go a long way to making people come to the conclusions they need to make. You always get more buy-in when people decide on their own what they are going to do by drawing their own conclusions.