The article from Salon on the Blood Mirror (See Blood Mirror Part I) declared that if the FDA lifted its restraint on gay men donating blood, then it “could save more than a million lives.” I found the claim spurious from the start. Are they saying more than a million people are dying each year because we’re short on blood?
The Salon article linked to a release from something called the Williams Institute that tries its best to look like an academic paper, but it isn’t. It’s myth making based on the worst kind of junk science.
From their own website, The Williams Institute exists because a guy named Charles R. “Chuck” Williams gave the UCLA Law school $13 million to influence “law and public policy” on “sexual orientation and gender identity.”
When you come across the “million lives saved” claim in the future, remember the Williams Institute, the myth maker.
$13 million payment to his pimps at UCLA.
Wonder how many blowjobs and anal poundings it took “Chuck” to save up that much money.
What’s their data on the friction quotient of anal global warming?….
Not only are their numbers bullshit, but the whole idea is insane.
Back in the ’80s, there was a huge blood scandal in Canada when 2,000 people were infected with AIDS and thousands more with hepatitis.
They got a lot of the blood from American prisons.
Real smot.
http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/news/canadas-tainted-blood-scandal
Whatever happened to aids? Did it go away? Was it cured? Is it dormant? Are no sodomites dying from it? Or is it rampant and the media doesnt inform us? Why do we not hear anything about it, good or bad?
My uncle died from AIDS he received from Factor 8 made from an infected blood donor.
He died July 29, 1987
We’re going to risk lives so some people can feel good about themselves? Screw them, I want my uncle back.
If you watch the little film on the Blood Mirror Salon article one of the gay men giving blood for the project proclaims that blood is tested for HIV within 9 days of donation.
If gay men really, really, really want to donate blood now they could just go in to the Red Cross and lie about their lifestyle and according to the guy on the video, the FDA would catch it anyway.
I mean there’s no way to check if they’ve abstain from risky sex for the last year or not.
I know if the individual is HIV positive he will be contacted that their blood was rejected and I would assume the name would go into a do not accept list. Perhaps there would even be charges if an HIV positive person kept trying to donate blood.
Ultimately, it comes down to trying to convince themselves that there’s nothing wrong with practicing homosexuality by getting society continue to give ground on standards.
You don’t hear too much about the AIDS quilt anymore, do you?
Know why?
Because blacks account for more than 40% of HIV carriers.
Hispanics account for 21%.
The two main minorities account for 60% of those newly infected with HIV, as well as those already infected.
That quilt would be awfully black and brown lately.
It seems minorities are dealing yet another blow to American society- the inability to process information even after all that money is spent on “awareness.”
Some people are aware, others, not so much.
Tell it to Arthur Ashe.
And Amanda Blake, Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke who got AIDS from her lousy husband.