Blood Donations Skyrocket, but Gay Men Left Out

NBC ^ | 6/15/16 | Emma Margolin

[DennisR]

Correction:

And who is going to believe it when one of them says they have adhered to a not-provable requirement...unless they have been imprisoned in solitary confinement for a year.

[DennisR]

Crickets???

[arthurus]

Trying hard to get HIV into the general population.The claim has always been “we are all at risk,” and they are trying hard to make it so.

[Hardastarboard]

I just had a chilling thought. Imagine you're a health care worker (Doctor, Nurse, etc) and you have to treat a sudden influx of shooting victims from a gay night club. You would HAVE to, as diplomatically as possible and without making it publicly known, treat them as potentially all HIV positive.

This isn't an anti-gay statement. It's just basic health care common sense.

[T-Bone Texan]

"Homosexuals as a group tend to be the vilest bitterest, most narcissistic people I have ever seen."

Nailed it. "gay" is a misnomer; they are mostly unhappy people who just happen to put penises in anuses.

[heartwood]

You’ve never seen a dog, either sex, fixed or unfixed, hump another dog or someone’s leg?

I didn’t take any pictures of one of our rabbits mounting his brothers and both his parents but he was persistent enough that he had to be separated.

You could google bonobos, dolphins, and zoo penguins, but what would be the point?

My point is that we don’t take our morality from animals, or even from what is natural in humans - our fallen state.

[RegulatorCountry]

surely we have the technology and medicine to be able to accurately test the blood before it is used.

Testing it all is cost-prohibitive. Additionally, it's not 100% accurate, and it does not detect recent infection since the test relies upon antibodies rather than the virus itself.