I dunno, I think I just compartmentalize.
In my head.
These things are mind boggling and emotionally as well... but I think I sorta detach and compartmentalize it.
Its also part of my training... per what I studied in college and did as work for a time. I was in the behavioral sciences.
My Uncle too, just had a really bad health problem. Still ongoing.
Fear... is a thing that is always or not always, foremost in one's mind... but when things like this happens, it jars one's sense of normalcy.
And we look to the immediate and future... constructs of its impact, in our personal lives and societal as well. It is a huge.... humongous.... thing to digest in our mind and heart.
Main thing, we do not get desensitized and numbed... by it.
Being able to feel.... it a coping mechanism too, although it discombobulates, us for a time.
It is a process... if we understand that it is a process, it allows us to allow ourselves... to digest it and process it in a way that will aid us.