Can you believe that people will sit still for this crap?
No.
This policy was responsible for my family being abandoned by the cong when we needed help the most. And what we had was contagious. We got an antibiotic resistent form of strepthroat when my son started kindergarten. All four of us caught the infection and we had it for nine months straight. We'd go in three week cycles of severe, excrutiatingly sore throats, joint pain and fever, to the doc for meds and ten days of meds. We'd get off the meds and the whole cycle would begin again. Thirty two families in our town had this strain of strep. We didn't have insurance and there were other severe health issues going on at the time. So guess what? We missed meetings off and on. Guess what else, we were put under suspicion rather than encouraged and helped through this. And this is a tiny version of the whole nightmare.
Now my sister says that it doesn't matter that we had made huge sacrifices for Jehovah before all of this happened. Job changes, etc. She says that Jehovah allowed all this to happen to us because we didn't have the right motives or enough faith. Sis has chosen to shun me now that I have no use for the org. I miss her, but at least I don't have to listen to another story about some horribly ill person who not only makes all the meetings but regular pioneers.