Completely agree with this. We've simply gone too risk averse in this country (and others).
I know it's the Daily Mail and therefore by default utter tosh (obviously ) but this article just about sums it up for me:
"Pandemic of panic: The great volcanic shutdown was the price we pay for a society that overreacts to any risk"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-1267904/Iceland-volcano-eruption-The-price-pay-society-overreacts-risk.html
"No minister - Tory, Labour or lib Dem - readily defies those who invoke the sacred principle of making us safer. We have become an almost insanely risk-averse society, demanding to be babied from cradle to grave.
The great volcanic ash air shutdown is part of the price we pay for this. Until, as a society, we learn to measure risk realistically, we shall continue to face draconian responses to even marginal threats. "