As of today there have been 56,820 reported deaths in the US, of COVID-19. To put that into perspective, there were 58,220 US casualties in the entire Vietnam War.
It’s a pretty huge number, which would be growing exponentially if not for the lockdown measures in place right now.
To lift these measures prematurely, even with social distancing will only cause the virus to propagate once again. Necessitating another lockdown, likely for an even longer period of time in order to stem the spread.
To argue that the economic impact is not worth the lives saved, is to put a price on life itself.
The sort of person to argue otherwise is will also tell you the whole thing will go away “like a miracle”, to inject disinfectant, put a light inside patients and that a big flu shot should help.
As for children, in the UK they are now reporting an uptick of what is a seemlingly COVID-related inflammatory syndrome with children.