You're never going to achieve containment with just contact tracing, testing, and politely requesting that people stay at home. People won't comply. Containment requires mandating compliance:

* Forcibly testing people regularly

* Forcibly quarantining people who test positive

* Mandating contact tracing regardless of personal preference

* Imposing travel restrictions on hot spots with actual blockades

* Restricting any gatherings that aren't essential, with "essential" actually meaning essential (grocery stores, pharmacies, hospitals, etc) rather than politically necessary.

* Mandating correct wearing of masks

* Closing borders or requiring quarantine upon entry

In effect, we need to do what China did. We absolutely lack the political will to do that in the US for a variety of reasons, and so we will not be able to approach containment until we get a vaccine.

uhhh, it is not political will that we lack

most people do not want that at all

I most certainly not want to be forcibly tested or mandated to "correctly" wear the mask and you can fuck off you do

Well, unfortunately your opinion doesn't change the fact that those are the requirements for containment outside of vaccine development. Any other strategy will likely ultimately fail. Sorry if that makes you unhappy; sadly the virus doesn't really care about our opinions.