Another pour soul brainwashed by the sensationalist media then. Out of interest when was the last time you queued 40 minutes for check in? I’m not sure I ever have (maybe in Heraklion on a Friday night in 2009 it may have gotten close to 40 minutes)
I assume your plan would involve banning all public transport then? I mean, crammed onto a bus with limited or no air conditioning? A tube train, not very well ventilated. Ban it all.
And passing contact with somebody in a shop? What about all the products you’ve picked with your hands, were they placed there by robots? Have the products that have been touched by other customers and put back immediately vanished from the shelf? Do the self service screens clean themselves after every customer? And those card machines, are the buttons covered in magic anti-virus film?
I’d say one is far safer sitting on an aircraft personally. But that view doesn’t sell newspapers.