I would suggest you donate and save your own blood then. I would think that would be the safest thing to do. Don't they do that for Jehovah Witnesses before surgery?
Gay blood ban 'discrimination'
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I would suggest you donate and save your own blood then. I would think that would be the safest thing to do. Don't they do that for Jehovah Witnesses before surgery?
its difficult with JW's, the blood has to be kept moving or they cant use it. Im pritty sure what they generally do is filter the blood as they are doing the surgury and keep recyling it through the pt. Its not the best option but its the only one they can do
I agree .
Of course they do after that tainted blood fiasco. They finally started paying out the victims who received the blood as they were on their death beds. :bugeye:
Untrue.
HIV remains, outside of Africa, largely concentrated among male homosexuals, IV drug users, and prostitutes. Ignoring this in blood collection is silly and dangerous.
ok so in the US the problem is still confined to the homosexual comunity. In Australia (where this case is being herd) the growth in cases has been from the late teen\early adult hedrosexuals. This also goes for syfilis, hep c, and even herpies. Basically the safe sex message needs another reinforcer
I have to agree with you especially after all those ppl received tainted blood. A lot of ppl suffered and even died because of that. I think under the circumstances they have the right to be very strict and cautious about whose blood they are taking and transmitting into someone else. Can you imagine how upset you would be if your wife or husband was given some tainted blood and died a horrible life of aids or something. I would be absolutely livid.
Before any blood is used I hope it is tested for everything and anything and even retested before it gets reused.
I hear fags in the US have about a 3% higher incidence of AIDS.
They should really keep BLACK people from donating blood, since their infection rate is about 7x that of any other group. Except gay black druggies.
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I'm wrong. Almost half of all AIDS cases in the US are due to faggotry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_the_United_States#Current_status
But blacks still more infected than whites.
They should really keep BLACK people from donating blood, since their infection rate is about 7x that of any other group. Except gay black druggies.
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I'm wrong. Almost half of all AIDS cases in the US are due to faggotry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_the_United_States#Current_status
But blacks still more infected than whites.
I think it is a very discriminating question! Do they ask if a person is Bisexual or an IV drug user? Do they consider the fastest growing AIDS populations are young 18-30 black straight women and men in many parts of the world? I agree it is rather a person’s sexual activity rather than their sexual preference.
Do you honestly think that any test is 100% accurate? Ever hear of false positives or false negatives? I can't find the exact numbers for heterosexual HIV infection rates, but let's say it 1/1000. Contrast this with a rate of 1/5 for urban homosexual males (that figure is referenced above.).
Say that your test is 99% accurate in detecting HIV. Among 10,000 urban male homosexuals, you would expect 2000 to be HIV positive. So if your test was 99% effective, you'd miss 20 people who actually have HIV.
Compare that with 10,000 heterosexuals. Among that group, you'd expect 10 to be HIV posive. If your test was 99% effective, you wouldn't expect to miss any of them (0.1).
I'm not sure if my numbers are exactly correct, but you should see that including a high risk group vastly increases the chances of tainted blood slipping thru.