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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
Crying @ some of y'all acting like Basketball is this bloodbath of a sport  |
It's not, but blood is shed. As a basketball player I had to receive stitches on multiple occasions or bled from scratches/cuts and being elbowed in the nose/mouth. One girls teeth actually went into my forehead when she was contesting one of my shots. My point is, basketball isn't necessarily a blood sport, but it happens frequently; however, precaution is taken and whenever there is a spot of blood on the court a time out is called immediately and the player is taken out of the game.
And Magic Johnson was not forced to retire from the NBA because of his diagnosis. He made the decision on his own out of his own ignorance for his condition and he said now, being more educated about the disease, if he could go back, he would do it differently and also because his teammates and some opponents feared playing against him.
It's extremely hard to acquire HIV in the manner you all are speaking of as it is rendered non-infectious relatively quickly when exposed to air. As far as accidental needle pricks in hospital/medical settings, this is because the HIV + blood is contained in a syringe which is a vacuum and not exposed to air. That's why the virus lives and why it could potentially affect someone else. As far as saliva goes, blood concentration, under normal conditions, is not high enough to not be infectious.
It is completely asinine to say an HIV + player can't play basketball, or most sports for that matter. Some precautions should be made, but, for the most part, he or she would be relatively harmless.
