Posted on 02/19/2018 7:21:24 AM PST by fwdude
As scores lay injured in Florida hospitals after the Orlando shooting, potential donors inundated blood banks, offering what they could. For some, however, the hourslong wait ended in disappointment. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has strict guidelines about who can donate blood; among those restricted are people who have had certain diseases, those who have traveled to certain countries and men who have slept with men, or as the FDA refers to them, MSM, within the past year.
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One man, one woman....wait until marriage for sex and stay committed to each other: 99.99% chance of no STDs.
Sorry there is not much that gays can do to help decent society. However there was once a gay sheriff in Paterson, NJ that ran the county jail with his own handpicked goon squad. Gang bangers got arrested once, spent time in that jail, got released and then moved out of the area. They should run the prisons.
You are kidding, right?
As a hemophiliac, he became infected with HIV from a contaminated blood treatment It was well know at the time.
A gift from the Clintons
Why can’t they donate and then LATER screen the blood and discard it if anything is found wrong?
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Although, they test all the blood, the virus can take months to show up.
Also, it is not very cost effective to continue to collect and test blood that they can’t use. It really becomes like a free Aids test.
Or, as I like to say, anyone who gets my blood will get mad cow disease and die. On the other hand, I'm doing fine.
My son was born in Europe. Thus, he is permanently deferred for nothing he has done.
Read the article and the science behind the deferral. There is at LEAST a 10-day window of occult infection where the virus is not detectable and would slip past screeners into the blood supply, putting many at risk of infection.
And what party-animal sodomite counts days between encounters anyway?
Good points.
The official - and less politically-correct - term is "Men who have sex with men" - but I guess that is a little too graphic for the Trib.
Me, too. And I had donated over 2 gallons previous to being on the restricted list. I wonder if they will ever lift that restriction. As an aside, I was was asked personally, from a friend whose husband had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, to donate at a local hospital. I told my friend that I would donate, but she needed to make sure that I would be accepted, i e they could give my blood directly to her husband without going through the blood bank. It was a Kaiser instution and they said no. This was a decade ago, so maybe that rule no longer holds true.
“...and men who have slept with men”
Do they literally “sleep”? Don’t think that’s the case. Talk about euphemisms.
I should check again but I spent 6 months in Germany in the early ‘80s and have not been allowed to donate. But some at risk homosexual can because we do not want to hurt their feelings and it isn’t fair.
Homosexual men have an inordinately high level of sexually transmitted blood born diseases. HIV is only one of them.
The last thing a sick or injured person needs is a blood product contaminated with a serious bacterial or viral pathogen.
The tests to weed out the contaminated blood are not fool proof. Screening and testing are key to keep a healthy blood supply.
Yup. Exactly.
And no one ever wanted to ask the question — whose infected blood made him sick. Good chance that it was gay man, IV drug addict, or prostitute or all of the above.
And I heard recently that people no longer want to restrict gay men from donating blood. Stupid! But of course, the gay agenda trumps all.
When it comes to getting blood, I don’t care who sleeps with whom.
When it comes to getting blood, I only care that the blood is drug and disease free.
Tests are never 100% accurate.
Screening is essential.
Are you willing to play Russian Roulette with people in need of blood products all for the benefit of someone else’s self gratification?
I have given over 2 gallons of blood. About six years ago I developed an Idiopathic disorder of the blood. It just came out of nowhere. Nothing I did caused the disorder.
I am no longer able to donate. I don’t feel discriminated against.
I read that an average gay male will have 1000 sexual partners. 1000!
And those 1000 partners will each have 1000 partners; some the same some different. Not surprising at all that gay men would eventually catch something. Duh!
The solution, whenever someone is contaminated, is to quarantine that person from the rest of the population. But, according to some that, would be wrong and would be considered homophobic.
They still think Reagan could’ve put a stop to AIDS and ‘its all his fault’
I’ve always wondered why someone hasn’t invented a synthetic blood, yet.
Or as Rumpole of the Bailey put it, “Presumably by ‘sleeping’ you mean ‘not sleeping.’ “
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