Does trying to live healthy make sense considering the imminent bird flu pandemic?

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teo123
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Does trying to live healthy make sense considering the imminent bird flu pandemic?

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So, what do you guys think, does eating a healthy diet and exercising make sense considering there will likely soon be a bird flu pandemic? Recently there has been an outbreak of bird flu in Bosnia, but, thankfully, it did not turn into a global pandemic. Will not healthy diet and exercising backfire once the bird flu outbreaks, since bird flu kills people mostly by turning their immune system against them and people who have a weaker immune system have a higher chance of surviving bird flu?

Avoiding eating wild fowl so that the bird flu pandemic does not start with you makes sense, however, the vast majority of people are not eating wild fowl anyway. If I understand it correctly, vegan diet, while it protects against COVID, would put individuals who follow it into a greater danger of dying during a bird flu pandemic.
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Re: Does trying to live healthy make sense considering the imminent bird flu pandemic?

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Yes @teo123 . You should do that. Eat at McDonalds and KFC every day since there will likely soon be a bird flu pandemic.

I actually worry even more about birds attacking me. I recently watched Birdemic and such an attack seems immanent.
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