i see a lot of people talking about COVID-19 being the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer

what i don't see those same people discussing is how heart disease and cancer are both conditions whose prevalence is also inflated as the result of economically-driven policy and communities deciding to take on a certain level of “acceptable risk”

COVID-19 is not worse than cancer. so why is it that people get extremely up in arms about that one but remain utterly silent about the other “big C”?