If mosquitos always bite and elephants rarely bite, then why do we focus on the elephant in the room?

The little things..

Every year 500 people are killed by elephants, I am not sure how but that is what Google tells us to be true. Each year 700,000 people are killed by mosquito bites, again according to Google.

In 1981, a steel box failed and caused a collapse of a walking bridge killing 114 people. Engineers later examining the cause of the collapse determined a washer could have prevented the entire disaster.

Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid flight because the ground crew made a math error.

A 125 million dollar Mars orbiter was lost because someone forgot to convert English units to metric.

Perhaps we should start being concerned over the mosquito in the room.