The October 2019 at GC it was said that the next GC will be a very special GC. The one and only true church with their food storage did not tell their members to have N95 mask ready. Had the living prophet back in October 2019 encouraged its members to sow masks or buy some masks online that would have been some real revelation. Imagine how great that would have been had the lds church an entire bishop store house with N95 masks. Instead of pay tithing or don't watch pornography they could have said buy more toilette paper for your food storage and add some gloves, disinfectant wipes and N95 masks.

I'm becoming more and more convinced of the importance of food storage. The problem is that the distribution chain can get overwhelmed. Maybe the workers will go on strike? If that happens no one is going to stock the shelves? Folks will starve.

No doubt you hate unions and think they should be outlawed, and are trying to plant a seed here. No surprise there.

In the real world, as opposed to your fevered imagination, grocery store stockers and clerks are outstanding examples of people doing their jobs well in the face of significant risk. God bless 'em.

Straw man BOJ. He's not putting down the clerks and stockers. We all agree they are hero's. He's just saying, in his opinion, that the supply chain can be disrupted and a little food storage isn't a bad thing. There is no "fevered imagination" in his comment. There may be confirmation bias against some posters. Take it down a notch.

exactly! All it would take is for a bad strain of the flu to hit with unknown side affects, and most all the workers would be at home sick for who knows how long.

(oh wait that's actually happening)

What unions?

Most of them have been broken in the past 50 years from a high of about 35% in the early 1950s to just over 6% today. (I’m referring to private sector union membership.)

So it’s not really a risk that some wage slave out there wont get you your Cocoa Puffs, peanut butter, and toilet paper.

I don't have a lot of food here other than frozen stuff...and I could stand to miss a meal...or 6!...so I am. I could make the 10 minute drive to Safeway but my inner hermit tells me not to.



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Funny how the Prophet, Seer and Revelator gave a shitton of masks to China, and now China is sending masks to the US. Oh, and Rusty didn't tell the Faithful to pick up masks and TP two months ago.

A glaring hole in the church food storage program has always been ignoring non food items.

40 years ago I was roped into the role of food storage coordinator or some such title.

In my first presentation I pushed hard for people to buy and store toilet paper, soap, dishwashing liquids, women's products etc.

I was released the next week.

That is real discernment there...

I am a big fan of irony..

Heartless Wrote:
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> A glaring hole in the church food storage program
> has always been ignoring non food items.
>
> 40 years ago I was roped into the role of food
> storage coordinator or some such title.
>
> In my first presentation I pushed hard for people
> to buy and store toilet paper, soap, dishwashing
> liquids, women's products etc.
>
> I was released the next week.

Thank you for educating people on buying toilet paper, soap, dishwashing
liquids, women's products etc.
I got 1 big bottle of bleach that I can use when my cleaning supplies run out.

I store it in the trees, under ground, and all over town (now if I could just remember where that town is)...

When you get up you've got to get down.

Where's your smile? Turn that frown upside down. It'll go a mile (to the next smile station).

Meanwhile... How can anyone be prepared anymore when they quit the boy scouts. Babies

Mormonism wants members to save it, and save themselves, not the other way around.

If there's one thing Mormonism does, it's TALK, talk, talk- INACTION in action!

The 'church' of the LDS, Lost, Deluded, Selfish. It doesn't want the members to die, only because it would die.

Those are bad words for me--food storage. My dead father spent a lot of money on food storage as I was growing up. All of it was thrown out. The money was taken from a family in need. That's some sick shit, I think. Really.

I got a few hundred rolls of toilet paper, just wondering how long will it last if I keep it in the freezer instead of on a shelf in the garage?

The mormon church has a weird system. They want people to be self reliant as well as paying ten per cent. Even if you pay they don’t like to help you; I remember needing their welfare on a couple of occasions. You’d think they’d just hand me some cash, but oh no, some horrible lady had to take me shopping and decide what I was gonna eat. But all the while we had to pay and collect food for ourselves? I had to throw out food storage. The items they prompt you to buy are literally stuff you’d only eat if the stores were empty and you had no other choice. It came to the point it was going to go out of date, if you even noticed, and I threw it out. It’s horrible the way they treat and indoctrinate people in that organisation.
Food storage might be a good idea if you can afford it. Ironically this is more possible as an ex-mormon. But the only reason the stores were empty was only due to panic buying.

Third of Five Wrote:
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> Food storage might be a good idea if you can afford it. ... But the reason the stores were empty was only due to panic buying.
>

Poor people panic?
Everyday people panic?
Who's planning?
Who's not?
Who can't!

Is it "panic buying" or people only getting what they can afford right then... and then going back to the stores 2 days later when they have more money?

It's not panic buying as much as spontaneous whims and semi-affordable shopping, and stretching the already worn out dollar.

Everybody can't have enough if there are too many wanting too much, at the last minute, which may not be available, which contributes to this so-called panic shopping.

Turn Off The News (Plant A Garden), by Lucas Nelson & The Promise Of The Real.

Nothing wrong with planning, sticking up, being prepared, self-reliant/ sufficient, talented, diverse, smart, lucky, knowing people/ having connections, stockpiles, and so forth, and nothing wrong with NOT having enough or needing more, or being poor. We are all in this (boat) together [and all have our parts to play/ work].

This is going to take a while. Hold on!

I think the church just had a captive consumer for their wheat farms.

It seems like the farms are disappearing in favor of subdivisions.

When the food storage 2 year supply deal first hit, my dad's elder quorum started importing dehydrated potato and vegetable products from Roger's Brothers in Pocatello, Idaho. I hauled numerous loads for a couple years, and then after that kinda lost steam as a quorum project we took it over as part of our farm business as people kept asking for it.

My ex TBM demanded I have 2 years of food storage. So, I planned out a balanced pantry, found resources and presented him the plan. It would cost us about $1000 to meet the requirement. I even bought a plastic 50 gal drum to store clean water. My ex was all about the doomsday.

Then came the USING the storage in everyday meals so you rotated your stock and nothing went to waste. He hated it and and refused to eat the most of the food storage items. He would consume the snacks, treats, and dehydrated fruits to "help use the items". When I left the Mormon church, I sold off the majority of the supplies that would not ever go to use. He had a fit and said I was disobedient to God's laws. I reminded him that waste was a sin and that these items could benefit someone else.

Despite all the above stupidity, I am glad I know how to plan for this sort of thing. It only works if everyone is on board.

I am currently living with my older parents in their home when all this hit. I can't manage my own pantry items, but I take my turn for grocery store runs and pick up items that can be stretched in our diet. My high risk diabetic Father has a binging problem and eats a lot of our supplies out of stress and boredom. I have to store some items in my bedroom now to avoid the eating binges. He also risks his health just to buy all sorts of sugary sweets he should not be eating.

Anyway...I digress. I am grateful for my resourcefulness I learned in difficult times with the ex. They do come in handy now.

RMM

OUTDATED