I think right now real estate is starting to look good
If you are avoiding the stock market because it's tanked right now, the real estate market ought to give you the screaming heebie-jeebies. Real estate is down as bad or worse than stocks, depending on the location.
At some point both will probably start recovering again. We may never see the rocketship growth we got used to through the 90s and early 00s, but even the Great Depression had a recovery. Unless you think something historically cataclysmic is going on here, things will improve eventually.