That's a total of 579 deaths among kids 17 or less in spite of the fact that schools and most activities were closed. Schools stayed open in half of the US and

That's a total of 579 deaths among kids 17 or less in spite of the fact that schools and most activities were closed. Schools stayed open in half of the US and many other countries, and they didn't have noticeably worse results. 579 child deaths used to be considered a lot Bluntly, it's not. There were over 20,000 childhood deaths in 2016 (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsr1804754 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsr1804754). That level of risk doesn't remotely justify shutting down schools and massively disrupting their lives.