Current doesn’t go through your body unless there’s something that it really wants to go to on the other side- for example, the ground. When birds sit on lines they just get a tiny bit of charge on their feet which is harmless. When you touch the line while standing on or holding onto something, the charge will move through your body causing big damage.
You would get shocked if you were standing on the ground and touched a live power line because you have now created a connection from the power source to ground. But, if you were simply hanging from the wire without touching anything else you wouldn’t get shocked because there was no circuit to complete.
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