Political Correctness kills - sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Sometimes it is immediate, and sometimes the effects play out over decades.
Great move. Lots of thought on that. But I’ll bet that the doctors, who know better, will still wear gloves when dealing with the sodomites.
All in all . . . great move by the Canadian “Free Health Care” system.
IOW, give us a little more time for political correctness to further corrode common sense, and we'll lift the band altogether.
The takeaway? Don't go to Canada, at least not without your own traveling blood supply.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
So HIV goes away now in 5 years?
Let the recipients decide whether they want or don’t want to take the blood. I think the blood units should be clearly marked.
If you plan to have surgery that would require having a transfusion, make an autologous donation ahead of time. If you anticipate needing more than one unit, get friends or family that you trust to give blood for your operation.
I have a fairly rare blood type and used to give regularly.
I want to know that, if I require a blood transfusion, the blood does NOT come from a homosexual or an IV drug user. I’m sure there are other categories that should also be denied donating blood. Does wanting to be safe from biological contaminants make me a “homophobe” (which is a politically correct term only)?
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Gays have been pushing for this so they can spread AIDS. Then they can claim more women and children to be affected and garner more “sympathy”.
They will be crying and moaning over this in the USA too. After all, normal people who don’t engage in risky behavior should be made to suffer the same risk as people who deliberately put themselves at risk.
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Why, so they can sell it to Arkansas prisons?
I find it ironic that, on one hand, libs are trying to take away our guns because they don't want anybody to get hurt, while on the other hand libs are evidently ok with putting people at higher risk for becoming HIV positive from tainted blood, putting even greater demands on constitutionally indefensible Obamacare.
Well it is at least a good thing AIDS has become a manageable disease.....
But yeah, I grew up in a rural community and one of my friend’s mother died because of a AIDS tainted transfusion she needed after giving birth to my friend’s sister.
There is a special place in hell for these disease spreaders...
This brings to mind the horrendous decisions made involving completely vulnerable and innocent persons years ago in Canada. It was between 1986 and 1990. The Canadian Red Cross was the sole supplier of blood plasma. They had got donors from Russia and run down areas of big cities in the US. Prisoners were also donors of blood.
1100 people got HIV and 20,000 got Hepatitis C. It was alleged the Red Cross, a multi-million dollar agency cut costs. They were informed of a device marketed in the US costing nearly 200,000 dollars that could either screen or cleanse the blood. They did not purchase it.
Now we are informed of the decision to use blood from the "gay community". I believe the Red Cross out of the transfusion business. I am reminded of a question put years ago to a "human rights person". It was this:
If you are to have a blood transfusion and the medical personnel are directed bring the plasma, which would you choose- the blood donated by heterosexuals or homosexuals? Or would it just not matter which?
Crickets!
I’d rather be homophobe than dead-o-phobe.
There were sound health reasons why gays were not allowed to give blood...now folks in Canada will pay for HomoPhilia
Does anyone else recall back in the early 80’s when AIDS was a new thing, that a homosexual said that the only way they’d get government funding for AIDS research was if it spread into the straight community. He said they were planning to give blood to spread it. It was on a network interview show, I don’t remember which one.
Don’t be in a car crash in Canada.