It's funny, when I was a kid we took sack lunches to school that were made before school started and were sitting at room temperature, then we took them to school where they sat at room temp or higher for hours before we ate them and no one got sick. We went on field trips where those same sack lunches sat in the hot luggage bin of the bus forhours and no one got sick. I distinctly recall holidays where we had the main meal at noon and then ate off the table all afternoon and no one died.
Now if we don't immediately refrigerate our food after a meal we are all gonna die. Because decades ago Jack in the Box had horrible practices and some people died now the only kind of hamburgers we can get from the chains are cooked into shoe leather, or WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!