Posted on 06/28/2016 6:39:16 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
...Under current laws in the US — which are mirrored here in Australia and other parts of the Western world — gay men are unable to open a vein if they’ve had sexual intercourse in the past 12 months.
These restrictions sprung up during the AIDS panic in an era of widespread homophobia, where pastors and pundits publicly proclaimed that HIV was a divine plague on homosexuals.
Right now, there are less than 30,000 cases of HIV in Australia. Sounds low? That’s because it is — among the lowest rate in the world, in fact.
About two-thirds of these carriers are “men who have sex with men”. This means gay males are deemed what’s called an “at-risk minority”, especially in danger of acquiring HIV, and are automatically excluded from donating blood — again, unless they’re willing to declare they’ve been celibate for a full year.
Despite some not-so-recent advancements in testing which have shrunk the window of detection to mere weeks, and subsequent renewed calls — including from the Red Cross themselves — for the shortening of the deferral period to a more reasonable 6 months, the same rules still apply.
Never mind that this waiting period is unenforceable — because, really, if there was a way to tell if someone’s done the deed in the past 12 months, we’d know by now.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...
And anyone who lived in or visited Britain in the 80’s-90’s isn’t allowed to give either. Mad Cow disease, you know.
Mad cow would have killed me over 10 years ago IF I had it, but I will never be able to donate because I ‘might” have it.
SCREW “EM. Its all about $$$$$$
This pressure to have gays give blood is outrageous, disgusting, disgraceful..... no one of sound mind would want to receive such blood in transfusions, the risks are obviously higher. Therefore, no one should be forced to risk receiving such blood when they might be in a car accident, have surgeries, have any of a range of blood and medical conditions, etc.
As a cancer survivor who had to receive many units of blood transfusions, and knowing many others who have been in similar predicaments, it is quite personal to me to loathe people who want to increase the risks in the blood supply, just to serve some socio-political cause.
How much better can you feel than "gay"?
“These restrictions sprung up during the AIDS panic in an era of widespread homophobia, where pastors and pundits publicly proclaimed that HIV was a divine plague “
The fact that AIDS was a death sentence and ran rampant through the gay community had nothing to do with it though, right? Sheesh...does he remember the AIDS epidemic in the 80s? I do.
Me, too. And before I married and moved to Britain, I had donated around two gallons.
Hello!! AIDS/HIV!!
I didn’t know giving blood was a fundamental right desired among freedom lovers everywhere.
If a person is fighting to donate blood when they engage in homosexual behavior.. they are evil. Only someone evil would want to infect an innocent with a death sentence.
Almost 1/3 of gay men have had over **ONE THOUSAND** different sex partners and USUALLY they have NO relationship with them before they have sex with them.
Both me and the wife were over 2 1/2 gallons and I honestly felt better with regular bleedings. I tryed for advocacy for over 10 years but I am totally done with them now.
I have prayed that one of my loved ones doesnt need blood in a hurry.
TOTALLY FUBAR INDUSTRY!
Or the blood goes to those government officials and their families.
He might very well not have lived through the ‘80s. On the other hand, there also seem to be many older activists who would remember it and are putting out propaganda about it.
Apparently they think getting an anal injection of HIV or hepatitis is less dangerous than getting it intravenously.
Australia has roughly 25M people. If 2% are MSM (men having sex with men) that is 500K men. MSM account for 2/3 of HIV infections in the US. Assuming the same in Australia, that is 20,000 of the infected people, or an incidence of 1 in 25 MSM infected with HIV.
Not a number I’d like to play roulette with.
And a MSM could be the most devoted, monogamous MSM that ever walked the earth, and still have his partner cheat on him.
"This means gay males are deemed what’s called an “at-risk minority”, especially in danger of acquiring HIV, and are automatically excluded from donating blood — again, unless they’re willing to declare they’ve been celibate for a full year."
"Never mind that this waiting period is unenforceable — because, really, if there was a way to tell if someone’s done the deed in the past 12 months, we’d know by now."
Notice the theme of potentially not being truthful and going to donate blood anyway. In another story I posted here recently on this, a worker at an "LGBT center" near Orlando simply advised sexually-active gay men to go give blood and say they'd been celibate.
These rump-humpers are the cause of the death of multiple men with hemophilia who had to get transfusions of clotting factors in the 80s and 90s. I neither forgive nor forget and I’m damn sure not scared/phobic about these poofters. They caused the death of a good friend from childhood because he got AIDS from this crowd of feces fornicators. He was totally innocent and had to bear the cost of their sin. The entire crowd of peter-puffers can just hope I never have a personal opportunity to “open a vein” for them.
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