Posted on 03/28/2020 4:46:03 PM PDT by fwdude
A group of senators are calling on the federal government to lift policies restricting gay and bisexual men from giving blood amid a nationwide donation shortage. Currently, men who have sex with men must remain celibate for a year before they are permitted to donate.
The 15 senators sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday urging authorities to “shift away from antiquated and stigmatizing donation policies” to address a need for blood donations during the outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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Getting rid of the Mad Cow restrictions would be a safer idea.
What could possibly go wrong?
This just more Marxist opportunism to force a leftist agenda on the back of a crisis.
If queers want to help, they can donate money or encourage qualified donors in their circle of family and friends to donate. There are plenty of people who are qualified, they just have to be reached.
That worked really well in the Bill Clinton Arkansas era. Just ask the hemophiliacs who got the HIV-tainted prison blood.
Oh wait, you can’t, they’re dead.
Exactly. It’s been 1999 since I moved back from the UK....and they still will not let me donate.
Come on Democrats!
Just get to the end of it!
Ask them to start nuking hot virus areas!
Of course, after you’re out of them.
Sounds like the prudent thing to do. /s
Which 15 senators, I wonder.
Cannot do it til April 10th..
They have had so many come in they do not have enough supplies...
Why sure - on top of Coronavirus let’s add AIDS. Brilliant!
So they report this shit, but don’t name the senators.
The usual suspects, as well as other leftist freaks.
This is all part of the never ending propaganda to convince the public that AIDS is a hetero disease as much as a homosexual disease.
PS: there are no “bisexual” men. There are gay men who, for various and sundry reasons, have had sex with women.
SMH.
I wonder how the gay community would feel if the rules were this blood could only be given to gay people and the 12 Senators should they ever require blood.
if it’s been 20 years, shouldn’t Mad Cow have killed you by now?
Makes me wonder how Coronavirus would affect those with HIV
RIIIIIGHT! Because HIV isn’t an issue anymore, that’s why they have TV ads 24/7 pushing meds for HIV! Queers will never stop butt banging and will never ever not be a threat to the rest of society!
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