Molson Hart

Step 1A - Total shutdown of all non-essential businesses for 3–4 weeks in the entire United States. Step 1B - Essential business-workers (anyone outside the home) must wear masks.

Step 1C - Test all foreign visitors at the airport. If test is not reliable, require all foreign visitors to self-isolate for three weeks. Step 1D - Fine or imprison anyone who disobeys. Step 1E - Concurrently build supply chain for masks, PPE, ventilators, and rapid testing.

Step 2A - While loosening national self-isolation restrictions, establish testing checkpoints all over the country in locations with significant traffic. If you want to go to the grocery store, you need to get tested for COVID-19. Want to go to the mall? expect to get tested.

Step 2B - Require people to wear masks whenever they are out. Step 2C - Anyone who tests positive must self-isolate for 3 weeks. Again, if you disobey you are fined or go to prison.

Step 2D - As soon as the number of positive tests in a location gets too high (metric can be infections per local hospital beds), return to step 1, but keep it local. Increase rate of testing in surrounding areas.

If the situation continues to deteriorate, apply step 1 over a wider and wider area, as large as the entire United States again if necessary.

If at any point, there is legitimate evidence of reinfection or mutation of the virus, reconsider totally the strategy. If reinfection is proven impossible, recovered patients can receive an ID, which will allow them to avoid testing and other hassles.