Gave me food for thought when I read "birds'.
While cleaning out a bird house I suddently thought to myself, you just breathed in some bad stuff. Dust etc. etc. ,,,,,,thought this as I was pulling out the birds nest to clean the house.
It was a few years ago and I was showing symptoms a good a few years before the final acknowledgement of my primary doctors decison to find out why I had lost so much weight in one year. He ordered the CScan 8/22/2022 and the result, as he held my hand,...Bronchiectasis. He is a caring doctor with an open mind however I believe he and doctors in general need to have a system that keeps a list and record of the concerns and symptoms you have been telling them during the long time period of telling them that something is wrong.... meaning the tool called a computer that could analyze all you have brought to their attention as time goes along. (Good luck with that intelligent use of computers 😁)
So, who truly knows if it was cleaning out the bird nest(s) from the bird house(s) or some of my other health problems that surfaced and were supposedly 'cured' along lifes journey. However, now that I know what can happen in living life and specifically dealing with nature and water, I do believe masks are in order, when logically can be used with good common sense, for many reasons.