Masks and gloves. I like your idea. Make masks and gloves available to everyone and lets get back to work. A whole lot cheaper than shutting down the economy, destroying 5 million jobs, and blitzing trillions of dollars.
Masks work if you are sick and in that case you shouldn’t be out. Masks are not to be worn unless you are a healthcare worker.
Separate workers as much as possible. Take temperatures 3 times daily. Send anyone with cough home. Still keep the limits on large groups over 10 for now. I heard that nice Dr. who is always on FOX being interviewed by Hannity radio show and the Dr. said he was washing his hands because he learned the virus is very susceptible to soap. Unfortunately, there was no more talk about it as Hannity fired off a question for him to answer.
If we had stockpiled 500 million N-95 masks (which work ) and mailed 5 them to every addresses, and let markets sell excess as cost, then it would have cheaper in the long run than operating in a safe mode and quarantine economy.
As for gloves, they actually spread disease as this to other surfaces, and the important time to wash hands is before handling food, or touching mouth, eyes nostrils.