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Originally posted by Wick
Don't they test all the blood they receive? If not that's incredibly careless. Anyway, AIDS is one ****ing disease that more gay men have than straight. There are thousands of diseases out there. Just because a gay person CAN have a disease (even though straight people have it, too) doesn't mean the entire demographic should be banned from saving lives. Completely ridiculous. Test the ****ing blood and see that I DON'T HAVE AIDS.
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Exactly. Just because a certain demographic is statistically at a higher risk for a disease doesn't mean that every single one of them has it. It makes no sense to preemptively make that assumption. African-Americans (women in particular) are also at a higher risk for HIV transmission, imagine the uproar if black people were banned from donating blood for this reason.
This backwards way of thinking should stay in the 1980s where it belongs. I assumed that in 2011, people would know better than to think AIDS is strictly a gay disease.
