Gadianton wrote:I call BS. Granted, there is a hit-and-miss strain of "preparedness" in Mormonism, but I call BS that either he or Lou Midgley has much to do with that. (I would bet, however, that Kiwi57 is prepared) I'd like to see a blog post with specifics about his food storage and Midgley's, their 2-week plans, and their 72-hour emergency kits. I'd also like to know what kind of training they've had for dealing with emergencies, and how much thought they've put into it. In the hundreds of thousands of words he's produced over the years, I've never read a thing that indicates any practical skills. Sometimes academics wear that as a badge of honor. In fact, Midgley, as guy in a high risk class, took a cruise at the outbreak of the virus to confront an "anti-Mormon" on the other side of the planet. Wow, yeah -- these guys are really prepared!
You are right I don't see either of them having any practical skills beyond their academic and apologetic endeavors. Nor doing much to prepare for anything. At best they have some dusty food storage under the stairs, but lack the skills to do anything with it.
The best the church could say about their preparedness was there is with the past stresses on preparedness in the culture many members kept up some of those habits. The home based movement came from an entirely different direction, being "prepared" for the coronavirus was a fortunate coincidence.