Oregon blood drive canceled over ineligibility of gay men

The Seattle Times ^ | 05/19/2003 | AP

[dhuffman@awod.com]

The gay-AIDS epidemic ended in about 1979. Haven't you noticed that EVERYONE now catches their dose from a blood transfusion? Anyone else know of the tainted blood scandal in our liberal neighbor to the north? Our oh so liberal neighbor. Maybe these 'students' should follow the VN-era COs up there and leave the US to us.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Hmmm...I don't remember an exclusion for this 'exposure'. Care to provide some details? I am a bit concerned since I have donated about 250 times in the last ten years. Is there something that I should have been asked?

[HIDEK6]

I was teaching a Junior Achievement class once, and the subject of AIDS came up. Some smartass kid asked me if I was concerned about AIDS.

Well, I've forgotten more about being a smartass than that kid will ever know about it, so I told the class, "Nope, not worried about it at all."

They asked why not, since that was their generation's equivalent of nuclear war.

I said, I'm hetero, have only had sex with my wife, and don't foresee that changing.

You should have heard the flabbergastination. It was deafening.

[FITZ]

I have an idea. How about TWO blood supplies, one by and for gays and their supporters, and one for heterosexuals who don't think gays should donate blood?

Good idea ---there should be gay blood banks and straight blood banks. Gays shouldn't be bothered if they get their blood from the gay blood banks. Or even take it further ---left wing blood banks and right wing blood banks ----whoever needs blood can decide if they want politically correct blood or non-pc blood. I'll bet everyone would go for the non-pc blood.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Not only did Arthur Ashe die from AIDs in a transfusion, my stepfather died from it as well. He was getting transfusions for Lukemia and died from the blood contaminated with AIDS.

[dts32041]

Red cross came out with the exprosure warning about two years ago.

Didn't make big waves, cause it only affected 250,000 GI's and families.

Europe can't follow the standard because everybody born 1985 will be afected by the exposure.

[r9etb]

I'm sorry to hear that. You should get first whack with the halibut on empty head of The Senator from Multiculture.

Gad, but these morons are so exasperatingly stupid.

[Dick Bachert]

These kids are MORONS (as explained below)! God help us if any of them make it to the levers of power in this country!

Bill Clinton's CDC released figures a few years ago reflecting that fully 85% of all AIDS/HIV cases are

1. Active, non-monogamous homosexuals,
(the largest subset)

2. Heterosexuals and bisexuals who have had sex with group 1 and

3. IV drug abusers who share needles.

(Kinda gives new meaning to Romans 6:23, doesn't it?)

The remaining 15% (the REAL “victims” of AIDS!!) are those who have contracted AIDS via other, non-sexual/non-drug means SUCH AS TRANSFUSIONS OF TAINTED BLOOD (which one homosexual "leader" on the West Coast URGED his fellow homosexuals to CONTINUE to attempt to contaminate in order to involve the straight community in the push to increase federal funding for AIDS research).

What a guy -- er -- GAY!

I'd guess the stats in Africa are equally appalling -- and worse. There was a report some time ago (which has apparently now been deemed too non-PC to remain in the US press) that some adult male HIV infectees are raping girls aged 2 after hearing that doing so would "cure" AIDS. That sort of behavior redefines "ignorance" and suggests that pouring MORE US tax money down that rathole will have little or no impact on the problem.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

I'm really worried now, being retired and with exposure far beyond that allowed service personnel. Details please. What exposure or what documentation. As I say, I am a high volume/high frequency donor.

[Billthedrill]

Working on my third gallon now. They screen for eating hamburgers in Great Britain these days. That may be inconvenient, but it isn't prejudicial.

An HIV test for antibodies is cheap and easy - but it isn't conclusive, which is why how recent risk activities are encountered is germane. And the presence of viral bodies is testable but more expensive than the cost of collecting the blood warrants. This isn't a case of political rights here, it's a cold cost-benefit analysis.

But don't try to sell that to folks for whom EVERYTHING is political. While they wouln't necessarily rather be dead themselves, they wouldn't mind other people being made to risk it. All in the name of social justice, of course. When they get around to disallowing sperm banks because women can't contribute I'm quitting.

[dts32041]

Don't remember where I heard it, maybe a hoax, I just remember hearing it.

Unfortunately don't have any sources, I never paid anymore attention to it than that, having too many other little bugs running around in my system so i can't give.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Thanks. Your chain was being yanked. I was about to call Barbara Streisand.

[dts32041]

Still searching, but like I said can't give, so never paid it any more attention.

[Plutarch]

Students at Southern Oregon University (SOU)...

Left wing stupidity only exists where it can be buffered from reality. These students correctly perceive that they have little risk of being recipients of possibly tainted gay blood.

Ascertain how much money it would take to get them to receive a pint of blood from a HIV negative gay donor. They wouldn't do it for millions.

[G.Mason]

".......... it's a rule they made up in the 1980s and people are not up to date," he said."

No, but they are alive.

[Calvin Locke]

When California finally hits the big one, will Oregon and Washington also fall in to the Pacific?

Idiots. Who the heck is in charge of issuing common sense? Did it become a government job at some point?

[dhuffman@awod.com]

If you'd like, we can reason it out. I don't recall - and I do the questionaire weekly or bi-weekly - an exception for exposure to any chemical agent, exceptions are only for biological agents IIRC. Radiological exposures are physical/chemical and not 'biological' and not infectious.

This is the reason for so much concern with CJDv/BSE/'prions' since they are either or neither.

[dts32041]

Just been up to the Red Cross site and went through what looked like a 3 page list of people ineligible, and there was no mention of Chernobyl and 1986, but there where a whole more of interesting things.

Will mark it up as not hearing correctly or a bad news cast.

[Teacher317]

Yes, by all means, let us drop the blood drive, which is designed to help save lives, so that we can support the "rights" of gays to give blood, which endangers more lives.

Example #42353 that the Left's agenda is to destroy lives. Abortion, gun control, refusing to execute the worst mass-murderers, government control destroying healthcare and hospitals, teaching homosexuality, encouraging race riots, etc, etc, etc.,

[Teacher317]

But don't you see? THAT kind of diversity only serves to separate people. THEIR kind of diversity, however, somehow is the nation's "greatest strength". (Don't ask me to tell you the difference. The only difference is in their minds.)