Schools to open or not?

[Ossian]

We're all capable of judging the risk to ourselves (whether our response is cavalier or conservative) and  we didn't / don't need an overbearing state terrifying us into accepting the closure of  society. There are unbelievable  levels of anxiety and it's the neurotic minority driving and distorting the debate.

The problem with that analysis is that a 'cavalier' assessment potentially exposes others to risk. 

However conveniently it might fit into your analysis, the debate is not being driven by a 'neurotic minority'; it's being driven by conflicting opinions - none of them underpinned by a guarantee of being even - to coin a phrase - the 'least worst'.