Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 13:07:53 -0500
From: Sandi & Scott Spaeth <vespass-AT-toast.net>
Subject: Re: so I gave some blood today...


At 10:08 AM 4/4/00 -0700, Brie Finegold wrote:
> > The other questions may seem foolish, and I agree they do, but they've
> > also cut the transmission of HIV to nearly zero through blood
> > transfusions in the U$.
>
>you'd think that if that was their goal though, they'd focus more on people
>who've had unprotected sex, and not just on their outdated, homophobic image
>of gay men as AIDS carriers... straight women are the fastest growing group
>of people infected with HIV, but they don't immediately disqualify men
>who've had sex with women.

Which was also my feeling.  It's a combination of the questions asked and 
those NOT asked that pissed me off.  At this point in the game, unprotected 
hetero-sex is far more dangerous than protected homo-sex (which doesn't 
even get into the issue of monogamy vs. promiscuity).

As for Mad Cow, my point again was that a simple duration is less telling 
than other factors might be.  If I ate tainted beef while going to school 
(oh the irony) in England, I ate a LOT of it, whereas a vegitarian could 
live there for years without any risk of exposure.  Again, the questions 
don't make sense.

cheers,
MCS
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