Arso,
I don’t know you personally, what I do know is that you have a bitter bias against Chabad, so unfortunately I cannot take your word that you heard (and you’ve never said you were in 770, somehow I don’t picture you at a farbrengen). I hope you understand
About your second point about Eretz Yisrael being the safest place, the way I appreciate it is that because there is no sar appointed to Eretz Yisrael, everything there is not just hashgocha protis, but very very pinpointed. Like on simchas Torah, got many stories were there of people who davened or took on one Mitzvah, and were inexplicably saved? When I was there, I felt it. I hadn’t experienced an atmosphere of a place beforehand, but I felt it there.
And yes, there may have been an extremely limited number of people who died from side effects, but the natural death occurrences elsewhere (traffic accidents) were probably higher than the supernaturally minuscule number of tragedies.