I’ve been talking about this among friends since the virus first hit.
If everyone can take a free home test every time they have to go out, essential workers every day, it would make all the difference. And yes, the government should manufacture them and send them every person for free. If people knew they didn’t have it, they could at least go to work or go visit a friend (who also doesn’t have it) knowing that it’s reasonably safe. If they do, they can isolate immediately. It’s not like “normal life” as we know it. But it’s better than this Russian Roulette many people are forced to play to make a living or the Russian Roulette people are playing in order to have a social life.