The obvious answer is to test aggressively and quarantine the infected and direct contacts. Then the rest can be out and about.
Regardless, we obviously can’t execute on it, for reasons of incompetency, culture, faith in government, etc. And even if we could, it would take months to scale to where we’re testing millions per day like we’d need for that strategy. Millions would die by then.
So given where we are today, and the resources we have today, what would you do?