With all this fear about "Bird Flu", there are reports that we should
consider stocking up 3 months worth of food and water. My question is
this: if Bird Flu has been around for about 5-10 years, and it has not
gone away, what will 3 months of self-imposed quarintine do for us?
What is the medical rational of imposing "stay at home" policy when
Bird Flu hits? If you are going to catch Bird Flu, won't you just
catch it anyway, maybe the next year or year after? Why are there
experts out there saying it will kill a whole bunch of people when it
first hits human to human transmission, and then implying it will
magically disappear, as if you can ride out the first wave and be ok?

I've been covering this for more than a year in my blogs and research sites.

The reason (answering your question) is that like other human flu
infections, it is seasonal and runs a course - that is why you don't
catch the flu in the summer most times.

Bird flu will not be any easier to catch than any other flu if it
mutates to a human form - it will just be incredibly deadly.

You can avoid it by staying out of crowds, away from bird droppings,
and washing your hands a lot. I also answered another quesiton about
n95 masks.

Basically, you can avoid the bird flu, but it may still disrupt life
as we know it.

Or it may not, but some new pandemic will if this one doesn't.

Thanks but you danced around my question. There are people who say the
avian flu can be more contagious than influenza for example. In any
case, what makes the assumption that bird flu season (3 months) will
be seasonal valid? Its been coming back every year for ducks, even if
it went away in the summer, why won't it come back following winter?

Actually I didn't dance, I just didn't go into detail in a comment
which you aren't charged for.

The full answer is complex and I'm not prepared to tackle it for the price.

Another researcher will probably answer your question.