See also "normal accidents" [1], which are an even bigger worst case scenario, which we already struggle with, and will only get worse.
"Normal accidents, or system accidents, are... inevitable in extremely complex systems. Given the characteristic of the system involved, multiple failures that interact with each other will occur, despite efforts to avoid them... while operator error is a very common problem, many failures relate to organizations rather than technology, and major accidents almost always have very small beginnings. Such events appear trivial to begin with before unpredictably cascading through the system to create a large event with severe consequences." [1]
If it's any consolation, we already have far higher death counts through systemic violence, which is so normalized most people balk at the idea of even referring to it as such.
It should be impossible to die from "poverty" (certainly not in a "rich" country like those in Europe or North America) and yet that is one of the most significant contributors to a staggering number of ongoing deaths. Things get only worse if you consider stress from existential anxieties or conditions that would have been treatable if they had been diagnosed earlier (but that would have cost extra).
Well, I guess that's not much of a consolation after all.