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MikeWaters · 04-27-2009, 01:29 PM

If not already in place, the church ought to be implementing technology that allows us to hold church "virtually". That is, in the case of contagion, it will likely be necessary to cancel church services.

But wouldn't it be nice to have a web broadcast, or a conference call where the Bishop and others can hold a kind of virtual church service, that importantly gives direction to members about what to do?

At the very least, each ward should be beefing up its electronic mailing lists and communicative ability.

BarbaraGordon · 04-27-2009, 01:39 PM

doesn't the flu thing seem a bit Chicken Little? I mean, I understand the danger we're facing with a new strain of the flu, but I also know that we were concerned about a pandemic with the avian flu. I'm not sure the sky is falling quite yet.

MikeWaters · 04-27-2009, 01:46 PM

if you wait to prepare shelter until the sky starts falling, it is too late.

The flu kills a lot of people every year. But most of the time it is the weaker amongst us (i.e. old and sick). That is because the flu is a minor variation of previous flus.

Occasionally we get a flu that is a whole different beast, that is very different than previous flus, and our bodies really don't have any "memory" in our immune systems to fight it. These can cause pandemics. Our vaccines are useless, and in the case of 1918 pandemic, it was most often healthy young adults who died.

fusnik11 · 04-29-2009, 05:35 AM

I had a similar thought in church on Sunday but with a different solution, just cancel services. I typically end up passing or blessing the sacrament and literally half the ward was, coughing, sneezing, sniffling, during sacrament.

Why not simply cancel the block, send our a mass email, post some signs on the door and tell people to administer the sacrament in the sanctity of their homes?

04-27-2009, 01:29 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	creative responses to the flu by the church If not already in place, the church ought to be implementing technology that allows us to hold church "virtually". That is, in the case of contagion, it will likely be necessary to cancel church services. But wouldn't it be nice to have a web broadcast, or a conference call where the Bishop and others can hold a kind of virtual church service, that importantly gives direction to members about what to do? At the very least, each ward should be beefing up its electronic mailing lists and communicative ability.

04-27-2009, 01:39 PM	#2
BarbaraGordon Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gotham City Posts: 7,157	doesn't the flu thing seem a bit Chicken Little? I mean, I understand the danger we're facing with a new strain of the flu, but I also know that we were concerned about a pandemic with the avian flu. I'm not sure the sky is falling quite yet.

04-27-2009, 01:46 PM	#3
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	if you wait to prepare shelter until the sky starts falling, it is too late. The flu kills a lot of people every year. But most of the time it is the weaker amongst us (i.e. old and sick). That is because the flu is a minor variation of previous flus. Occasionally we get a flu that is a whole different beast, that is very different than previous flus, and our bodies really don't have any "memory" in our immune systems to fight it. These can cause pandemics. Our vaccines are useless, and in the case of 1918 pandemic, it was most often healthy young adults who died.

04-29-2009, 05:35 AM	#4
fusnik11 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2,506	I had a similar thought in church on Sunday but with a different solution, just cancel services. I typically end up passing or blessing the sacrament and literally half the ward was, coughing, sneezing, sniffling, during sacrament. Why not simply cancel the block, send our a mass email, post some signs on the door and tell people to administer the sacrament in the sanctity of their homes?