Just one more reason of many why you couldn’t force me onto an airplane if your life depended on it! When I did fly years ago, I picked up a cold nearly every time I flew.
I’m close to having a phobia about flying but forced myself to do it a couple times especially when I got to go to Europe. I know it’s safer excepting contagion and TSA groping, a few other factors, but I love car trips where you can go at your own pace but statistically it isn’t nearly as safe as flying and I don’t feel as safe as I once did on interstates and freeways, too clogged with bad drivers and huge semis. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do and hope for the best.