• Approximate annual number of road traffic deaths 1.25 million.
• 7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution.
• About 3.3 million net deaths of all global deaths, were attributable to alcohol consumption.
• More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.

We take this news for granted get in our car, smoke a cigarette and drink another whiskey but now with COVID-19 (current number of deaths: 15,430) panic kicks in. We as a species are predictably irrational. I'm not saying that we shouldn't take COVID-19 seriously, we should take it very seriously, but some perspective is desperately needed to drive the panic out.

(All numbers except for the COVID-19 number were taken from the WHO website and are estimates)