>>486467>Am I gonna die?Eventually, yes.
Last time i checked was maybe 3 years ago, i could remember incorrectly or what i'm about to say could be out of date:
H5N1 affects youthful and vital people a lot harsher than old or sickly people. It's not transmitted through the air, only through direct contact (infectiousness is low) and it's rather deadly (virality is high). About half the people who got it died.
That means it's not a particularly good candidate for a pandemic.
If a virus knocks out people who are fit, while it leaves weaker people relatively unaffected, that means it chose the least effective spreader-subjects, Grandma likely isn't going to a big concert where she can infect hundreds of people. Without areal transmission, behavioral counter measures are easy. And by killing off half the people, it cuts off many transmission vectors.
All that said, it could mutate, viruses do that a lot. Then all bets are off. If a mutation causes a "gain of function" that enables transmission through air, civilization could be fucked.
There are standard procedures that should nip this in the butt. People who work in these industries should have good protective gear, which is comfortable enough that it actually gets used. I'm guessing suits with portable cooling units, factory farms tend to be rather warm places. It's probably sufficient to ban raw products, you know cook the eggs, milk, meats and so on before selling it. And have veterinary doctors screen animals before they get transferred to prevent cross contamination. We are getting to a point where prevention has become much more economically viable and hatching viruses is less of a sanitary negligence anymore and it's slowly turning into a kind of bioterrorism.