That narrative is unacceptable to power structures that rule through fear. If people really internalized the fact that (for one example) a person in the UK is m

That narrative is unacceptable to power structures that rule through fear. If people really internalized the fact that (for one example) a person in the UK is more likely to die from swallowing a bee than through terrorism, many totalitarian policies would be undermined. Likewise if most Brits accepted that it’s riskier riding a horse than taking MDMA, the war on drugs would suffer. Fear is just such a useful tool to keep people moving in the general direction you want that politicians and plutocrats will not give it up, and niether will marketers. Meanwhile the media has generally embraced sensationalism and fear for a very very long time. People are inculcated into a culture of fear to sell shit, to control them, to siphon money from them, and who’s left to show them the way out? The prototypical example is that so many people fear flying commercially, yet don’t blink at getting into their cars to drive.