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This is an aircraft worth taking great lengths to avoid. Cancelling important trips, meetings, etc.

Statistically it is not. Most of the time travellers don't know if they're on an Airbus or Boeing aircraft and hardly ever figure out that it's a MAX.

Infinite loss multiplied by small chance is still infinite risk

What daily activities don't have a small chance of the same risk?

Eating has a small chance of choking to death. Walking has a small chance of getting hit by a falling tree branch. Pooping has a small chance of causing a brain aneurysm to pop.

Yes, we will all die. Every last one of us.

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