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From the dedicatory prayer of the Salt Lake Temple:

Heavenly Father, when Thy people shall not have the opportunity of entering this holy house to offer their supplications unto Thee, and they are oppressed and in trouble, surrounded by difficulties or assailed by temptation and shall turn their faces towards this Thy holy house and ask Thee for deliverance, for help, for Thy power to be extended in their behalf, we beseech Thee, to look down from Thy holy habitation in mercy and tender compassion upon them, and listen to their cries. Or when the children of Thy people, in years to come, shall be separated, through any cause, from this place, and their hearts shall turn in remembrance of Thy promises to this holy Temple, and they shall cry unto Thee from the depths of their affliction and sorrow to extend relief and deliverance to them, we humbly entreat Thee to Turn Thine ear in mercy to them; hearken to their cries, and grant unto them the blessings for which they ask.

There was one suspected coronavirus infection of someone who works in a different building of my facility, but that person tested negative. It is a funny kind of epidemic that so far is not known to have infected any of the 2,000 people where I work, and we have each been asked to report in if we become sick or possibly infected. I searched for a “list of famous people infected by coronavirus,” and the list compilers had to dig pretty deep in coming up with “famous” people. Besides Tom Hanks, Idris Elba, Placido Domingo, Rand Paul, and a couple basketball players, I’d never heard of any of those people. Most of them are like Olga Kurylenko, best known (if known) for a role in a James Bond movie a dozen years ago. Does anyone reading this personally know someone who has tested positive for coronavirus infection? (more…)

After the consequences of Adam and Eve’s choice began shaking out, and the cursings were pronounced, Satan became possessed with the white-hot incendiary anger that you only see in a dishonest man deprived of a loophole he was sure he was entitled to.

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See Updates below, 3/19/2020, 3/20/2020.

This is some Yankee guessing, based on published figures and estimates at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019 — Updated Fatality Rates for S Korea & Italy getting worse. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic  — Has a table of data by country. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu — Historical info. 1918-1920 flu pandemic.  Closest thing to relate this to.

Added:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_in_the_United_States — 2009-2010 Swine flu pandemic in the U.S. 60 million cases, 19.6% infection rate.

https://arguablywrong.home.blog/2020/03/10/epidemiological-modeling/  — An epidemiologist’s 5 million maximum, w/ no efforts.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/15/nolte-ex-obama-official-reports-too-late-stop-1-million-u-s-coronavirus-deaths/  — Andrew Slavitt’s estimate of 1 million minimum, no matter what.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2019/ U.S. population by age bracket. Click the Excel-CSV link to download the numbers for your own spreadsheet.

Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. I just like playing with spreadsheets and statistics.

The two figures you want to concentrate on are: infection rate, and case fatality rate (CFR). IE, what percent of the population contracts Covid-19, and what percent of those who contract it will succumb. The infection rate is closely tied to the “R0” number, which is the average number of people an infected person passes the disease on to. It looks like the R0 for Covid-19 is equal to the 1918/1920 Flu pandemic. But… societal response also affects the rate and number of infections.
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The day after the bishop authorized and requested that men and youth of the priesthood provide the sacrament of the holy meal to their own families there was another e-mail. The second was from the elders’ quorum president reminding his quorum where in the scriptures we will find the prayers. That was all the prompting I needed.

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Chia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_seed

https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3061/2

Flax:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flax#Flax_seeds

https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3163/2

Methylcellulose:  https://www.citrucel.com/

Seaweed:  https://www.cooksinfo.com/ito-wakame

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakame
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God has a sense of humor.

–Thus Keven D. Williamson