Ban on gay blood donors upheld by panel

[KrazyHorse]

freaks

[Al B. Sure!]

Well AIDS won't hit for a few years so I guess it's worth it... and who knows, they might develop a cure by then or you might be like Magic Johnson and be fine.

[SlowwHand]

Exactly. Buy me some time.

[Al B. Sure!]

And who has B blood type besides Asians? A+ over here (I think... pretty sure)

[DRoseDARs]

I have AB+.

Slut of the blood types, you can accept transfusions from any of the other groups positive and negative.

AS, here's a sorta answer for you with distribution maps:

http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_3.htm

[SlowwHand]

It's the 3rd rarest.

[DRoseDARs]

And as far as I know, I probably get it through the Commie (Russian) part of my mother's mother's family. I know nothing of my father or his side.

[Guynemer]

I have AB+.

You can get DRose's faggy B+ blood, then. Or, you can get my condescending, Texas-mocking B+ blood. The choice is yours.

[SlowwHand]

I'd rather just die, I guess.

[Ben Kenobi]

Mother. Fvcker. You can't be this f*cking stupid, it's gotta be schtick right?

How do you think we had all those blood transfusions that transmitted AIDS in the first place?

Do you think that the hemophiliacs had a choice? No.

[Ben Kenobi]

We always test donated blood for contamination before giving it to patients.

Which means that we ignore risk factors? That's like saying it's safe to drive a road that's wide enough without guard rails to stop you from falling.

It's a fact that men who have anal sex are by far the most likely to contract AIDS. It's risk mitigation to prevent them from donating.

[giblets]

Surely there's a better way to deal with risk than preventing all gay men from donating regardless of whether or not they're sexually monogamous.

[MrFun]

Going back to my earlier question. Why not pass stronger risk mitigation by only allowing donated blood from white straight men and white straight women?

[Ben Kenobi]

Surely there's a better way to deal with risk than preventing all gay men from donating regardless of whether or not they're sexually monogamous.

So we need to stop something that's working to experiment?

[Ben Kenobi]

Why not pass stronger risk mitigation by only allowing donated blood from white straight men and white straight women?

Are you arguing that pigmentation makes you more likely to catch AIDS? Isn't that rather racist?

It's simple, don't sleep with other men, and don't inject drugs and then you can donate blood.