Posted on 05/12/2015 11:49:04 AM PDT by reaganaut1
I believe they test for antibodies, and perform a PCR test for at-risk persons.
That is what I think as well. You can find a virus with PCR, but unless you know that you should be looking for one, it is prohibitively expensive to do a PCR test on every sample of blood.
Trouble is, I think it can sneak through and kill someone if your don't.
These days, if you’re planning surgery it’s always best to stockpile your own blood supply.
On the other hand, if you’re hauled into the ICU, you’re out of luck and taking your chances.
And the FDA doesn’t give a sh*t.
And on top of everything else, the queers want to poison the national blood supply.
Hope I don’t need a transfusion soon. Imagine being in that position, knowing the transfusion could kill you.
Well, chances are that such cases would be far less frequent with the fact that the tests aren’t perfect, and the probability is still up there for a false negative when a person has acquired HIV recently, say weeks ago, there’s also not just the issue of HIV that actively practicing homosexual men are at increased risk for either, Hepatitis and other illnesses are also a problem.
Well, there’s the need for people who don’t practice reckless, risky behavior TO ACTUALLY DONATE BLOOD, hopefully keeping the percentages of tainted blood down in the blood banks. The best we can do at this point is to simply try and compete against the tainted blood present. I am disappointed in the problem, but we can’t just let this be lost by default. People in emergencies such as car wrecks need blood, and whatever is in the blood bank is what they get. If you aren’t allowed to donate such as being in Africa or Europe, I can understand, but we can’t just give up on this one.
There’s always the risk of a false negative, although the risk of a false negative is highest in the few weeks after the individual has contracted HIV. Even then, there are outliers, and you would need other tests for other germs that may have contaminated the blood, and they aren’t perfect, although far fewer cases of infected blood will pass the screenings than used to be the case.
The question is: WHO is willing to take that gamble? And all to satisfy one of BHO’s constituencies. Pathetic.
Prolly should have included this is my comment above.
I donate blood every sixty days and have done so for years.
Letting fags donate blood is just plain stupid. Why ask for trouble? I can see this leading to lawsuits and all kinds of unintended consequences.
The left wants equality at all costs. It’s not “fair” if the poophole crowd gets a disease while the “binary” people don’t get it. So to make us equal, they will mix the poophole crowd’s blood with normal blood.
I know that the armed forces blood bank does a PCR yearly on servicemembers. The ASBP is an amazing program.
Blood letting! I didn’t realize that the constitution allows for blood control.
Here we go again, and this is just in the last week or so for all these things to come to my attention...
Dang it...
I would think with I could see blood letting in the Constitution, but for some reason I cant find it.
Once again, this shows that I have an older version of the Constitution.
Mine doesnt list salad bars, raisin control, ketchup speed control, smelly body products, phone handouts, and others as one of the specific authorities given to the federal government.
Can someone point me to where I can download a latest version of the Constitution?
One that specifically authorizes (enumerates) federal government authority over such things as:
- the amount of water in my toilet bowl
- the type of light bulbs I use
- Obamaphone handouts
- blood letting
- body stench removal products
- how fast ketchup should flow out of the bottle
- delicious nutritious kids salad bar
- and also raisin control.
This is how a government behaves when it cares what happens to them.
If a normal person protests, he’ll be branded homophobe. If thousands of people get aids from this, it will be covered up.
Anyone wanting to bring this nonsense to a halt, can simply quit donating their blood....and make sure they know why you quit.
In that case, I recommend ending the FDA.
(So much for protecting public health)
Great. Why should junkies be discriminated against?
the very same people who Feel Microagressed if they SEE a Smoker!
“Let’s see who in the GOP has the guts to make this an issue.”
Well, now that you put it thst way, I’d better start banking my own blood.
The political left is uniformly disgusting. Choosing to kill people so gays won’t feel like we are rejecting their tainted blood is yet another stupid choice leftists make to protect the feelings of perverts.
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