Stairs are a lot deadlier than elevators btw
VERY VERY few people die from elevator accidents and most of those who have died are usually the ones building and/or repairing them.
The sheer amount of safety precautions within elevators is mind boggling! But it also tells you that YES it IS normal to be afraid of them, bcs ppl keep on demanding more safety precautions be added to them, despite them already being like.... insanely safe!
A single cable that keep the elevators up would be able to support more than the elevators weight with ppl in it and elevators have like eight of those cables.
elevators are safe af
Escalators I'm not so sure about though, haven't looked into them.
but overall.... It's a lot more dangerous to take the stairs.