Which is Worse? 

    A new study, or I should say a new article on an old study, shows that touching anything in an airport terminal is risky at best and is usually most foolhardy. This article points out that according to a 2015 study, airport terminals are one big Petri dish of biological entities, just waiting to attack a human body if they can find one which is relatively easy. 
    And the very worst thing you can touch, or put anything you possess in contact with, are the trays that they insist you put your stuff in to go through the security screening machine. Other areas are anything close to a cash register, stairway railings, or children play areas, just to name a few. 
    Many of these areas a person can avoid, but the trays are a must if you want to get through security. Now I’m guessing that if, before you used one of these transport trays, you pulled out your aerosol can of Lysol, which they would take away from you eventually, and started to spray the tray, the TSA people would have you spread eagle on the ground in a heartbeat, and would be calling in a hazmat team to save the rest of the people in the terminal. 
    Now that all pales into insignificance as a hazard when you actually get on the plane. That is where you come face to face with the most deadly thing you will encounter on this trip and that is the germ-laden drop down tray that is tucked into the seat back in front of you, and that you are expected to use if you want to do anything like use your laptop, rest the book you’re reading, or the very worst, eat. Now the airlines have tried to solve the problem of eating anything on their germ- laden trays by just not serving anything edible or anything at all for you to put on the tray. Thank you, airlines. 
    The article made it sound as if you were extremely fortunate to come away from air travel, or just being in an air terminal, without having contracted some terrible disease. 
    Now the above is mildly interesting and my point is this. Huh, you didn’t think I had one did you. A person can’t tap into any kind of news media without finding something just as scary- if not worse. Every editor who is looking for some filler taps some writer on the shoulder and asks for a few inches of something that will attract the attention of the readers. What better than something about some assault on our health, how we’re in jeopardy of dying a too-soon death for one reason or another. 

    Now it’s nice to know what dangers are out there but I submit that to live in constant fear of our environment is worse for our health and peace of mind than the proposed health hazards the media keeps holding up for our consideration.