Today’s Al’s Morning Meeting had a very useful set of links to government info on pandemic preparedness. Ohio’s state planning page is at http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/states/ohio.html (substitute your own state name for “ohio” in the link); more to the point, preparation for individual families has its own page.
What are we doing to prepare? Well, there’s a basic scripture that we follow (imagine that… a family of Mormons following a scripture…). Doctrine and Covenants 38:30 says it very simply: “If ye are prepared ye shall not fear.” Read in context, that promise was made by the Lord to the early saints, who were facing a great deal of uncertainty, and not a little hostility, in New York state. The Lord’s guidance was simple: prepare yourselves spiritually and temporally to move to Ohio, and– if you’re prepared– you’ll have nothing to worry about. Accordingly, we’ve been following the Church’s long-standing counsel to have supplies of food, water, and basic needs on hand. President Hinckley gave a great talk on this topic in the October 2005 general conference; if you’re at all interested in knowing why Mormons believe that food storage is so important, read it and you’ll see.
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