Today, Kid's hero Dr. Oz proposed that if it would "only" cost 1,200 - 1,800 additional lives, that reopening the schools would be okay with him.
Sure, he said, "a life is a life," but letting this kids get back where they would be safe and fed seems important to him.
NOTE: a lot of folks have misinterpreted him to be talking about 2-3% of all children or of all people in the country, or perhaps, more generously, "only" of all COVID-19 cases. I am pretty sure he means the even smaller set of all deaths from COVID-19. Otherwise he's talking about 13,000-20,000 in the most generous of those.
So, "only" 1,200-1,800 deaths is much better, right?!
(Don't forget the additional deaths of kids killed in the re-opened schools' mass shootings, Dr. Oz!)