Laredo, Texas has a $1000 fine if you are over the age of five and caught without a mask in public. I think every state needs to do this, if we want to end our stay-at-home orders. Even with the current shutdown, we are still seeing the number of cases rising. This could not happen if we had a tight lockdown. If we make it looser, cases go right back up exponentially. We have more asymptomatic cases out there now than when we started the lockdowns, so the infection rates will rise much faster. We have to do something drastic to break this cycle. Lockdown (as we implemented it) obviously does not work well.

In other countries, everybody wears a mask in public. Doormen who make sure you have a mask before they let you in a store, pump hand sanitizer into everyone's hands before entry. Supermarkets sanitize every basket after use. Mass transit is closed down. Schools have everybody masked, the AC turned off, and all windows open. They do everything they can think of to break the cycle.

Do we allow protests? Sure, this is America. People can protest as long as they wear masks, obey group size rules, and obey physical distance rules. If they don't, arrest them. If they resist, shoot them. Non-lethal weapons would be fine, but these sociopaths are endangering everybody so they need to be under house arrest with ankle monitors.