You can't easily conclude "right" here, but you can very easily adjust the narrative to fit certain biases. There's at least one study that tried to link loss

You can't easily conclude "right" here, but you can very easily adjust the narrative to fit certain biases. There's at least one study that tried to link loss of education with a greater long-term loss of life than the short-term losses avoided with closures... but there are a lot of holes and assumptions so it's far from reliable. https://www.npr.org/2021/01/31/962090342/did-closing-schools-save-lives-or-cost-lives-the-debate-continues https://www.npr.org/2021/01/31/962090342/did-closing-schools...