Of course we shouldn't panic but we have to take the pandemic seriously. Maybe in your country recoveries are much higher, and deaths are minimized, but to my country, deaths are getting higher, some deaths are not even counted cause they haven't get tested. No need to panic but what can someone do if they don't have the capacity to save themselves? Hospitals here are asking for a break cause they don't have thespace for the positive cases, and it keeps coming, frontliners are dying here too. Those are still lives, they are not just mere numbers and statistics.
You can't really say "the pandemic is not as terrible etc. etc." if you are not in the battlefield.
Being a resident of India, I can understand your feelings. The situation here is terrible and it is getting worse with every passing day. Yesterday we had more than 65,000 new cases and almost a thousand new deaths. Most of the hospitals are at breaking point, as health workers themselves are getting infected. In cities such as Delhi and Mumbai, private hospitals are refusing new admissions.