Giving Blood

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  1. dreamboy3000

    dreamboy3000 Well-Known Member

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    #1 dreamboy3000, Dec 14, 2020
    A positive news story for once (this year has been horrible for bad news) as gay couples can now give blood, which will save more lives by boosting supply.

     
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    #2 Tyke_67, Dec 14, 2020
    I never knew they couldn't give blood until now. What a ridiculous society we live in that people deemed "gay" blood different from everyone else's. I'm glad sense had prevailed in the end, but this took way too long
     
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    #3 Brush, Dec 14, 2020
    I think the ban was more to do with fears about HIV infection 30-odd years ago. Taken a long time, but welcome news.
     
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    #4 Donny-Red, Dec 14, 2020
    They always ask if you’ve had sex with someone of the same sex or a sex worker in the last 3 months as a knockout question. Along with intravenous drug use.

    as risk management it’s 30 yrs out of date. But it always makes me feel like a right boring fart :p
     
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    #5 troff, Dec 14, 2020
    When this news was broken by the BBC on Facebook, one of the first comments was by a woman who stated that she’d better be given the option to have non-gay blood...

    When called out on it, she said she wasn’t bigoted, and it was the person who called her out that is a bigot as he was ‘denying her a choice’...

    Unbelievable
     
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    #6 Tyke_67, Dec 14, 2020
    "Non Gay" blood. you can't make some of this crap up, unbelievable indeed
     
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    #7 MrsHallsToffeerolls, Dec 14, 2020
    Haven`t gays that have been going through a long barren spell not been giving blood?
     
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    #8 tyke69, Dec 14, 2020
    I used to give blood but can no longer due to being on insulin which is a shame
     
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    #9 Redhelen, Dec 14, 2020
    Probably due to the AIDS risk
     
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    #10 SFOTyke, Dec 14, 2020
    I used to donate blood twice a year, starting when I was in college. I still cannot donate blood over here due to CJD ...

    "We currently can't take blood donations from people who lived in the UK for six months or more from 1 January 1980 to 31 December 1996. The UK refers to England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and the Falkland Islands."
     
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    #11 Mr C, Dec 14, 2020
    Gay couples, not gay individuals, specifically.. o_O
     
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    #12 MiserablePontyEnder, Dec 14, 2020
    Really? That's mad
     
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    #13 Stephen Dawson, Dec 15, 2020
    I don't know why you're so surprised I've never known anyone contract HIV/AIDS from a hand shandy :)
     
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    #14 Marc, Dec 15, 2020
    what about bad AIDS though?
     
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