Precautions? Not necessary for a Pylo Krapp fear-pron extravaganza. Even the man in TX who allegedly got "bird flu" from a cow turned out to just have pinkeye.
Even if -- and it's a BIG "if" -- there is s "new flu" floating around out there, the same precautions a person would use for any other flu should be sufficient for the "new" one. Exercise. Do some form of manual labor if able to do so. Eat right. Get out in the sun. Avoid obviously ill people at the grocery store who insist on hawking loogies and/or coughing all over everything. And, for the health of the mind (which often controls the health of the body), occupy it with positivity, humor, and avoid all forms of negativity whenever possible. Especially fear porn.
Easiest way to control a populace is to keep it skeeeeeered and anxious. And if a person does get an alleged "new flu", do what people have done foe hundreds of years -- go to bed. Drink lots of fluids. Rest up. Stay home until no longer contagious. If condition worsens markedly, THEN seek medical attention.
Thinka bout it -- unless I'm just flat-out overlooking something, every single so-called "potentially catastrophic health crisis" of the past several decades has been a nothingburger at best, and a complete damn lie at worst. Swine flu. Bird flu (deja vu). Ebola. Marburg. Dengue Fever. West Nile virus. Zika virus. Corona Chest Cold. Hantavirus. "Disease X". The bovine solid waste goes on and on and on.
Meanwhile, we've got around 1.6 million chickens who were killed for NOTHING, other than existing. That makes me more angry than just about anything. And it's not just because I'm a bird-keeper. Such massive waste and wanton killing of huge groups of animals simply to gain control over the citizenry is evil on an almost incomprehensible scale.
OK< novella over. :-)
ThankQ for your response. I was worried about your birds. Glad you are so sensible about it... will you be my doctor? 🤣
In ag animal outbreaks slaughtering all the infected insures there’s never any selective resistance developed in them.