In life things need to be in balance, we can't have all the sick people, but we can't have everything shut down either.
I think ordering mask to be worn and hands to be washed, and attempting to actually enforce this is the best answer.
As most of the areas that it's out of control is the political areas that were anti-masks.
This needs to stop being a political issue, but the President made it one, and he has attempt to reverse while trying to save face (which is good), but he's only willing to go half way with it.
He wants the cases to go down, while allowing people to choose, it appears that in this case, you can't have it both ways (especially after you made it a political issue). And he's choose choice first, and try to talk around the uptick in cases.