1281: The Mormon Church's Inadequate Response to COVID-19 / the Coronavirus
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
URGENT! I am currently being flooded by parents and family members of Mormon missionaries, elderly senior missionaries, patriarchs, temple workers, workers at Deseret Industries, etc. about the Mormon church's tragically inadequate response to the COVID-19 / Coronavirus outbreak. It appears as though many church leaders, mission presidents, and missionaries are seeing the Corona virus pandemic as an opportunity to corner people in their homes, with hopes of spreading the gospel. It has also come to my attention that Mormon church patriarchs, temple workers (most of whom also fit into the high risk category), and workers at Deseret Industries are still being asked to travel from home to home to give patriarchal blessings, and/or to show up at the temples or at Deseret Industries to work.
Please spread the word so we can help the Mormon church keep its members safe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to a special edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:06.8 | John DeLin. It is March 17th, 2020 and I'm very honored and humbled and eager to share with you |
| 0:18.4 | today's Mormon Stories Podcast episode. This is sort of a special emergency episode. |
| 0:24.8 | For those of you who are listening later in the history books, the entire globe, meaning |
| 0:32.8 | earth, is currently being sort of quarantined and swamped with a pandemic, which is known as COVID-19, |
| 0:45.4 | or the coronavirus, businesses have shut down. You know, the NBA and major sports organizations |
| 0:54.5 | have all shut down. People are staying in their homes. Governments are requesting that |
| 1:04.4 | that it citizens all across the world no longer meet in groups of 10 or larger |
| 1:11.3 | and thousands and thousands of people have died and there is an inadequate supply of COVID-19 |
| 1:21.7 | or coronavirus testing kits in the United States and elsewhere. And so governments are currently |
| 1:28.6 | under-reporting the outbreak and it's particularly tricky because while younger populations are |
| 1:39.7 | are less vulnerable and the elderly and people with physical health conditions are more vulnerable, |
| 1:47.4 | younger people can still be carriers, even if they're not at high risk for illness. And a lot of times |
| 1:56.3 | or many times you can be a carrier of the virus without really any over symptoms. So for all those |
| 2:03.6 | reasons were kind of a very serious time globally. And you know, because we cover the Mormon Church |
| 2:14.0 | and we wish the best for the Mormon Church and the Mormon people, we've been tracking the Mormon |
| 2:19.3 | Church's response. Miraculously, the Mormon Church canceled saccharine meetings for the foreseeable |
| 2:28.0 | future, which is really good. And we've seen some responses from the Church to the coronavirus |
| 2:37.2 | or COVID-19, which is appropriate and valuable. There have been a few instances where the Mormon |
| 2:48.0 | Church as of March, you know, 15, 16th and 17th have been sort of very tone deaf in terms of |
| 2:57.5 | how they are responding. So today's episode is carrying on after several days of posting things |
| 3:04.8 | on social media. It's a public call for the Mormon Church to please quarantine their missionaries |
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