What?
I was “discriminated” against for years because of countries I had been in. I had been “discriminated” against against because of Malaria. He might not care about HIV, but the rest of us do.
good points you make. There are other criteria for blood donations and some will discriminate. There are restrictions about people who have traveled or lived in sub-Saharan Africa I think, or who have been in England during the mad cow outbreak, and a few other health concerns that the blood banks ask about.
Sometimes discriminiation makes sense. In a case of the blood supply, we’re supposed to increase risk to prove we don’t discriminate? But it’s a documented fact that homosexual sex in men spreads various diseases and is risky.
Don’t we all remember in the early to mid 80s there were many people who got AIDS from blood transfusions, specifically because there was no effective screening till then and AIDS was a newly discovered disease then. Why is it wrong to make common sense policies when the goal is public health?