Also, they give you a lead garment to protect the areas that aren’t being x-rayed. So the technicians are taking appropriate safety precautions for you as well as themselves.
Even without that precaution you get more radiation exposure from a long plane ride than from a single x-ray (less atmosphere above you = less shielding from cosmic radiation).


So much work has been done to propagandize Americans into thinking that socials is when people who do nothing take things from people who work. It’s to the point that when you describe it as a fair distribution of goods, people just think that’s capitalism.