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I'll see if I can find it, but about a month ago, I read an article that said the economy would have been harder hit had there been no lock down. Coronavirus would have torn through the entire workforce and people would be too sick to work and the economy would have really been mired. In Hong Kong i...

[TL;DR] Better, but that's because of my perspective and not because of my circumstances. I don't know about other people. I don't presume to speak for them. My physical circumstances have not changed so much, but my attitude toward them has. When my company finally let us all telecommute and I was ...

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Sun May 31, 2020 11:58 am

...There are things that I would love to see change, but I think sometimes I have lived too long to believe that other things will ever really change...

I understand, very well. I agree about the solar panels. There is more than one way to measure what is worth doing.

One change I would really love to see and I think is very possible is improving assistive technology for the hard of hearing and deaf. I am hard of hearing and have recently embraced what the Deaf community does to better navigate life in a world full of hearing privilege. I jokingly say "I'm in it ...

A few years ago, I hosted a man who was receiving chemotherapy. He wore a mask when he was out in public. I figure he wouldn't have been instructed to wear a mask if it offered no protection whatsoever. I think many of the people who object to masks have a binary view of them. They are 100% foolproo...

Some good news. Don't want to chase down the articles. Recent research suggests that recovered Covid-19 patients have antibodies for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as well as a few other surface proteins. Further, it appears that having recovered from infections from a related coronavirus confers par...

My ward shares the building with one other ward. Meetings are starting in June My ward will meet on one Sunday a month The other ward will take another Families will be assigned a meeting time and they will be keeping the meetings to 99 or fewer. Please stick to your time. Please don't invite guests...

I'm so sorry, Alas. I hope you can dodge this or it isn't too serious.

First, a little about the first. I chose five goals. If I were to list them for you, they'd probably sound familiar, but I wrote down my top five goals and decided to focus on those five as much as possible until they are achieved. Let me rephrase that. Ignore everything else as much as possible unt...

Geez, people, quit caring about what anyone else thinks. This is a prime opportunity to take back your power. When they ask you to be a “minister”, say “no I don’t want to minister or be ministered to”, and when they ask why, say “I have my reasons” and leave it at that. If you hurt someone’s feeli...

I think the Church just set itself back a few hundred years with this statement. I wonder if they'll redact it. From my perspective, whatever gains they can be praised for in calling leaders somewhat outside their stereotype have been erased by this phrase. And it wholly demonstrates why their orig...

I testify to the truthfulness of what you just said. Even making up the numbers part. I've done that, myself.

I have a feeling we won't be able to say no to this. ... As far as my needs, I need to be left alone. Have any of you said that? Does that actually work? That is what I would prefer. Oh, I can say no to it. During my last couple of years of attendance, I ignored it, evaded it, or just said no, depe...

I was in the other room at our family Easter party while a few were watching conference and I heard the words "non-consensual immorality" and I could not believe I heard this bit of victim blaming. Now it and diabetic neuropathy have me up at night. Maybe it was a super poor euphemism is a great ta...

So many great comments! I have a feeling we won't be able to say no to this. One thing that had me hopeful about this was one of the reasons stated for not letting children of parents in gay marriages join the church was there was an HT/VT record generated for that individual and home visits in thos...

Your friend makes a good point. I'll take an apologetic view for the church. I heard of a case where a clerk counted up, recorded and deposited the tithing. He deposited the tithing utilizing an ATM machine. There was a malfunction in the machine and the tithing envelope fell down in the spot betwee...

Slavareeno, It is nice to be able to be more open with my family. It was very nerve wracking until I heard from all of them. However, once that passed, it hit me that I am now free to resign, if that is what I wish. However, as we are fond of saying here, at Nom, baby steps. Thank you, Corsair, and ...

Yeah, I'm going to double post. While I was writing the original post, I was asking myself where the opportunities lie within this problem. One thing that is terrific about NOM is it is a place where I can get initial anxieties out of my head and then I have room for solutions. Once those thoughts w...

I didn't listen to conference. I saw that there was an announcement about HT/VT being discontinued and I was thrilled! However, when I read the official publication from the Church about what this new program will entail, I'm somewhat less than thrilled. Sister Bingham said “rather than leaders just...

I agree. I had been blissfullly unaware of the Joseph Bishop scandal until Thursday night when the Church announced its policy change. It also reiterated the Church's official stance on abuse. I was flustered by this, because I wanted to complain. I wanted to criticize. The Church is listening and r...