Should we be more sanguine

Subject: Should we be more sanguine 

56 million people die annually.
Cardiovascular diseases claim 18 million each year.
Cancer 10 million.
Malnutrition 9.1 million.
6.2 million people die from strokes.
Tuberculosis and pneumonia clams 3.4 million.
Smoking related 3 million.
Diarrhoea 2 million.
AIDS 1.6 million.
Diabetes 1.4 million.
Car accidents 1.3 million.
This grim list reveals the suffering, mostly underreported which goes on below our gaze and outside our comprehension. Disease and death are topics best left for the statistician given our propensity for becoming part of the statistic and our unfailing optimism that we won't. It's only when we are faced with a virus such as the corona virus and its ability to cut us all down to size, paying no heed to fame or prosperity that we begin to quibble
114.000 deaths have resulted from Covid 19 to date, its puny compared to the deaths listed above and yet it's gripped the world with a panic and forced an economic shutdown never witnessed before. Have we over reacted, should we let the death toll rise and accept it as one of those natural phenomena which smack us in the face every so often.
If we had as much fear of death would we engage in war. 85 million people died in World War 2, the numbers who were crippled far surpass that and yet our leaders tinker with the fragile peace that has prevailed since that catastrophe.
Will the mountain of debt and the economic disruption, which may never be repaired be a price worth sharing to limit the effects of this pandemic. Have we and the media got it all out of perspective with our daily news fest of hospitals full and patients queuing to be cremated. Is 114.000, 514.000 even 100.000.000 (1 million) too high when you compare the numbers with those dying annually from those named conditions which we seem happy to accept as normal.
Of course we must fight the scourge as best we can but if we gave the same prominence to cancer or heart disease, malnutrition or mosquito born diseases and reflected on the they deaths cause, perhaps we would be more sanguine less squeamish.