RF, what I am telling you is halachah l’maaseh. Where it’s “efshar al y’dai acherim” (which it is) one doesn’t stop learning.
Talmud Torah k’neged kulom trumps the importance of hatzolas nefashos.
This is a halachic shaila. The reasoning I gave is, I believe, correct, and likely the reason any posek would give.