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At 60-80% mortality, you think there would be any organized group left to enforce the restrictions?
Let’s mass breed and keep thousands of animals susceptible to avian flu in filthy horrific conditions … Gee, I wonder what could happen?! Smdh >

What happens is millions of human beings eat good protein everyday. The industry props up supermarkets, restaurants, frozen food. Virtually everyone eats this stuff. >

Mink? Because it’s the minks that have the ability to potentially cause an avian virus to adapt to a mammalian one. I’m guessing though you meant chickens but they aren’t an issue. Mink are specifically the issue here & they’re bred for luxury fabric, not food. >

Good point. I first thought "Well we're already culling chickens for bird flu so why would we be worried about Mink? Isn't that the same?"
Then I realized Minks are mammals. It is worse and creating a environment for easier adaptation. It's the intermediary selecting a virus, ensuring it is suited for infecting us. >


This has potential to get disaster-movie bad.

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Avian flus have a higher morality rate than COVID. >

That's a huge understatement. 
The deadliest COVID strains have a mortality rate in humans of around 1%. That's enough to overwhelm our hospitals and shut down global society.
Now imagine a global respiratory pandemic with a mortality rate of 60% to 80%. That's some avian flu strains. We've been incredibly lucky that none of these super-deadly strains have developed human-to-human transmission so far.
That said, if COVID has taught us anything, it's how to design, manufacture, and distribute vaccines really quickly, and influenzas are easier to make vaccines for than coronaviruses.
There's also the possibility that if/when avian flu mutates to become easily transmissible between mammals, it may also become much less deadly, which is what happened in lab experiments. But we can't necessarily count on this outcome, which is why these incidents are a cause for concern, and why it would be a really good idea to ban farming mink (they're susceptible to both avian and human flu, so they're ideal "mixing vessels" for a zoonotic mutation to arise in). >


Now imagine a global respiratory pandemic with a mortality rate of 60% to 80%. 

Depending on how transmissible it would be in humans, that would make the refrigerated trucks to hold dead COVID patients look like a joke. There could be bodies lining the streets if it was as bad as COVID. It probably won't be as easily spread as COVID but it would still shut everything down much more severely if it ever makes the jump. To the point that any shipping, travel, even leaving ones own neighborhood or house would be heavily restricted.