Perhaps a combination of most people helping, and wearing a mask, will work.
This does not work for many people. I do not even think that people are trying to be unchirst like it is just the way it is. People can't get this. We say don't were perfume but that is only the tip of the ice burg. The list is any thing included any one that burns candles plug-in etc etc etc etc etc bla bla bla bla. at there house transfers over. Hair spray deodorants, deterrents, dryer sheets that are on most clothes are usually very bad. Even the cleaning chemicals that the church uses now are bad. Incorporated that with the gym floor or carpet being redone you have a very toxic place at least for some of us. And here is the best part "It Only takes one" person that forgets a visitor or most of the time just plain don't know or understand what is going on. You nor I can dictate what laundry soap that people can were that is pure unattainable. x 350 people x 3 wards in a building. Yea right.
So what is the solution? Most of the time people just become inactive not by choice but by situation. This is a chronic condition that there is nor cure no matter what the newest and latest thing says. Don't you think that the 3-8% of the populations that is estimated to have this on one degree or another would try to get better to be able to go to work, a movie, or church? Church is one of the first things that you quit because of the toxic over load that people get. Again I am not blaming anyone it just the way that is. Like a person that is deaf or speaks another language or that is blind they all can come and learn because there is money and time that is decided to these groups.
With MCS it has been only around for 1950 ish with the chemical revolution. It has only been recognized as a problem in the last 20 years by anybody. So here are the solutions for people like me. So it is new not many people have really bad total home-bound (2-3%) like me.
1. You hide away become a hermit never leave your home never have anyone over ever. This is the safest thing that you can do I this is what many people have to do not because of choice but because passing out and the sick for 3 weeks on the couch after a 2 minute chemical exposer is no fun either.
2. Maybe you have a good ward and maybe you want to attend church you can try a mask which for some people will work for a while but it is short trem maybe a couple of years a decade maybe but then you get bumped into slot one. Maybe you have a great ward that truly wants to help so they bring sacrament to you which is gratefully received that you can precipitate in something. It is even wroth the people that come are usually covered with stuff and most of the time the have tried really really hard no to were anything. The don't where cologne, hairspray, gel or even deodorant but alas there is more there is always more. The dry clean suits brother me and most people like me Ok so I fire your air filter up and seal off the room for a couple of hours until the chems clear out. Maybe you can get permission to skpe into some meeting. This does work but you have to get permission from upper up. S.P I think. Do you see how much work this is for the people that associated with me and people like me it is like visiting a mine field. I am a sheep all you got to do is get to me but don't step on a trigger because then I will get really sick or run away or pass out. ready . . set . . go .
So again I do not blame anyone that tries to help it is just so difficult for anyone that deals with this including me and I know my triggers.
3. A Chem Free branch is formed. Ok so lets crack open this pile of worms.
1. Is there enough people to support this. I live in Utah and I say yes from a numbers standard. All if not most of us are considered inactive again most if the time not by choice.
2. Building or remodeling a place to meet. This is a hugh problem. I think that this would be as difficult as building a mini temple. With a insane expensive air filtering system. No mini spits here full on air handlers with many yards of carbon air filterers that would have to be ran all the time. Water filters cleaners and then there is the carpet or lack of carpet issues. Paint which is a no no for us. Etc etc etc.
3. Everyone would have to be total Chem Free. Period!!!!
4. Who get to go. The person that has s small headache after church at what point you get to go?
I do not know what the solutions is. it would be interesting to see how may of "us" are out there.
So that is the questions and the call out. Do you know people that are chemical sensitive in you area. If they are please have them contact the MCS home bond group just to get the numbers.
P.S I did not mean to highjack this discussion but I did anyway sorry.
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