If I were leading a right wing government which desperately wanted to save capitalism at any cost by sending everyone back to work, but realisesld it would be politically impossible to do so openly (because of the associated death toll), what would I do...

Well, I could think of worse strategies than communicating a new set of distancing rules so badly that lockdown collapsed, then when a second death spike starts, I could blame it on individual non-compliance.

That way the government didn't end lockdown, the public just stopped following the rules

This would be a particularly attractive option if I had a really compliant media class who I knew would subject me to zero scruntiny and basically communicate whatever line I wanted.