I just read an excellent essay giving seven ideas to help get out of lockdown safely.

1. Everyone wears masks as much as possible when they leave home.
Statistics and models can be excellent when dealing with large sample sizes. There are always the few who do not conform to the model. Eliminating the disease will take more than masks, but using masks can get the number of infected down to levels that allow other traditional methods to work better.

The article cites a great paper by Kai et.al. although it is not reasonable to expect that masks alone can stop the epidemic.

Without masking, but even with continued social distancing in place once the lockdown is lifted, the infection rate will increase and almost half of the population will become affected. This scenario would potentially lead to over a million deaths in a population the size of the UK. Social distancing and masking at both 50% and 80-90% of the population but no lockdown beyond the end of May result in substantial reduction of infection, with 80-90% masking eventually eliminating the disease

BONUS: Masks mess up facial recognition and think how much this must be annoying the PTB.

Masking should be mandatory for individuals in essential functions (health care workers, social and family workers, the police and the military, the service sector, construction workers, etc) and medical masks and gloves or equally safe protection should be provided to them by employers. Cloth masks should be used if medical masks are unavailable

Until supplies are sufficient, members of the general public should wear nonmedical fabric face masks when going out in public and medical masks should be reserved for essential functions.

The introduction of mandatory masking will benefit from being rolled out together with campaigns, citizen initiatives, the media, NGOs, and influencers in order to avoid a public backlash in societies not culturally accustomed to masking. Public awareness is needed that “masking protects your community not just you”.

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Trump may choose not to wear a mask because he can insist that everyone around him be tested frequently. The rest of us do not have that luxury.

2. Make a stronger effort to get a vaccine as quickly as possible.
The details this article suggests may not be the way we all want to go, but investments in a vaccine would definitely pay off handsomely.

3. More and smarter testing.

This has worked in China, New Zealand and Korea.

4. Hire more contact tracers.

This will also provide useful jobs for some of the people who are out of work. This can effectively dampen the spread in areas with only a few infections. It would be a waste of time in New York City right now. Elsewhere contact tracing could help and tracers would be trained for the mop-up on the downward tail of the curve.

5. Do not send infected people back to their households, prison cells, homeless shelters, or nursing homes.
Arrange suitable places where people who are asymptomatic or only moderately ill can rest and recover. Blood oxygen levels could be monitored so that people do not wait until their lips are turning blue to go to a hospital.

(Even people who do not care about prisoners should worry about prison staff going home and infecting their families and others in the community.)

Muge Cevik, a virologist at the University of St. Andrews, did a helpful roundup of research from Asian countries, and paper after paper emphasizes that the attack rate within households is extremely high. A lot of people, in other words, are getting sick from roommates or family members.

People staying home aren’t getting sick by magic, and transmission among people who are leaving the house is critical to keeping the epidemic running. But a key reason even serious social distancing efforts only bring case volumes down very slowly is that the virus spreads so easily inside households, meaning that one infection picked up at work could swiftly into two or three or four at home.

Current CDC guidelines call for infected people to “stay in a specific room and away from other people and pets in your home” and “use a separate bathroom.”

This is not practical in many cases. Not everyone has a large house and some people need ongoing care and attention. It also appears that the coronavirus could be spreading effectively through ducts, so it’s not clear that the CDC’s ideas would work even if rigorously applied. Regardless of the exact reason, the statistics signal it’s not working in practice.

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/13/21248157/testing-quarantine-masks-stimulus

6. There is nothing wrong with going outside.

This is one of my own pet peeves. Here in Florida the news media takes pictures from camera angles that make the beaches look crowded. I recognized landmarks on several of the beaches and it was obvious that "family" groups were mostly 10-20 feet apart. It is possible that some of the beaches near Miami are too crowded but that is not a good reason to shut down every park in the state.

UV light from the sun kills viruses fairly quickly. As long as we stay with our own "family" group reasonable distance from other groups that are in quarantine together this is a safe and healthy way to decrease the stress.

Quian et.al studied 1245 confirmed cases and found that:

Home outbreaks were the dominant category (254 of 318 outbreaks; 79.9%), followed by transport (108; 34.0%; note that many outbreaks involved more than one venue category). Most home outbreaks involved three to five cases. We identified only a single outbreak in an outdoor environment, which involved two cases. Conclusions: All identified outbreaks of three or more cases occurred in an indoor environment, which confirms that sharing indoor space is a major SARS-CoV-2 infection risk.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058v1

7) Just spend the damn money

Give the financial help directly to actual human beings and genuinely small businesses.