We have to maintain and foster economic activity to some degree. State tax revenue funds our police, our fire depts, our utility infrastructure and many, many other essential municipal services.
As we do this, we have to acknowledge the terrible outcomes that this disease can manifest if left unchecked. So, schools/packed pubs/concerts and especially churches (they pay no taxes) must remain closed or highly regulated.
And we will do this tap-dance until there is an effective treatment/vaccine or until the virus mutates in a way that gives us a break. There are no easy answers or solutions...none. No amount of inflexible political bluster will make this reality go away.