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The article was so calmly and with such a good description of risk that it actually felt weird to me. Its just so common to get stories so deeply committed to "If it saves just one child's life..." without considering the costs and risks of some proposed solution.

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This reminds me of a sketch by Mitchell and Webb (a pair of British comedy actors). It is a satirical news broadcast, in which Mitchell points out that the fact that there was not a single death from drowning in the local region proves that too much money is being spent on anti-drowning measures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYyxvM85zU

The idea that every life can be saved is fallacious, but it makes for compelling reading which is why media love to push those buttons, especially the lives of children.

Every year an x number of kids die from a very large number of possible causes and unfortunately not all of those are preventable. But we all love children (well, at least most of us do) so that's an easy score for a headline writer.

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