#1. Open it all back up. This thing has proven to be what I believed it would be all along: A fart in a windstorm! No matter how much they try to cook the numbers to make it seem worse than it is, the common flu has claimed more lives in the same time span ...and we have a vaccine for that!

Meanwhile lets put all of the "non-essentials" under house arrest, microchip their asses, lock them up if they don't obey, put Main Street into bankruptcy, and track everyone's whereabouts so we know who they are hanging out with. As long as they do what we say instead of doing what we ourselves do, it will all be okay. Can't be too careful when it comes to these peasants you know!

We should be trying to reopen everything with people taking proper precautions. Maybe for things like baseball games, that’s not a realistic expectation, but for most other situations, I think it is.

I wouldn't choose any of the 3 offered , but then again , where I live its a moot point . phased reopening is already in progress, and since my state has had no mandated stay at home orders , most of the essential places have remained open through out . I have even been driving semi since jan roughly 500 miles a day until the recent contract was filled . what I do think needs to happen is that those that test positive currently , do need to be quarantined at home , by law , irregardless of age . 

people know their own risk factors and should use common sense in evaluating them , I did when working , I interacted with no one during work , drove ,loaded and unloaded myself in a remote area away from people and didn't stop along the way. ,

as for the need to get food or other things , I used common sense and limited my trips into town , to one a day did everything I needed done during that one trip IF I made the trip at all , when I did I used a mask before it was said to be a wise choice , moreso because of my springtime allergies and the sneezing and coughing I go through , the looks if I did either of those without a mask made one feel like a leper.

 things here are scheduled to reopen this fri (5-15-20)with restrictions, i also doubt i will be in any rush to go anyplace that reopens such as the cafes , bars and other things because i am keeping track of the daily numbers of infection , recovery and such, and i doubt people will serious take the needed precautions , to stop the spread .Sure the businesses will , but patrons , not so much.

So i dont have to choose any of the 3 offered , the choice is being made already, but , just because someone else has made the choice , doesnt mean i have to blindly follow them in their chosen course of action .

me getting a free beer on my birthday the 21st just isnt that important to me as the risk presented in getting it..

so i guess what i am saying is its up to a person to use their own common sense after evaluationg the risks they both face and pose to others as well as what is going on around them locally  when making such a choice this important.

The poll doesn't provide enough information for me to make an educated choice, and here's why:

• There's no definition of "essential" vs. "non-essential". A small business owner considers his bakery, bistro, coffee shop, shoe store, etc., "essential" to his own family and those of his few employees.
• There's no category for education: pre-K through post-secondary.

Agreed. Also many states are too big to have a one size fits all.  What might be required for Chicago is hardly at all applicable to the rest of Illinois. 

Where I am, the only things considered "essential" were supermarkets, pharmacies and banks. I'm not sure if they were, but I would think that places that provided essential parts for continuing daily living, such as plumbing and electrical supplies would remain accessible by professionals.

I voted for number 2 and devoting all possible resources to finding cures.  This should be the maximum priority    

I vote for option 2 but you could do phased in sporting events. Say you don't allow more than 33% capacity and every one is screened before they come in. Then enforce social distancing or masks

None of the above.    

Every State, every city and every county is different.    I would use a phased in approach decided on at the local level.    Three or four tiers of reopening restriction depending individual circumstances.    This could be established and verified at the state level.

None of your choices have enough detail for such an approach.

Choose one of these three, and feel free to elaborate if you propose another option.