Reply #37: so now giving blood is a right?

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I find it ironic that this is posted so close to Isaac Asimov's birthday.

Isaac Asimov, who died of AIDs. AIDS that he got from a blood transfusion.


If the blood isn't being tested, then that question does not seem like much protection. How do you know anybody's status unless they are either a faithful partner or you got tested right before you had sex. If I have had sex with two people in the last year and each of them have had sex with two other people and each of those four have had sex with two other people, then how fast does that pool grow to 64 people, and if one of those people is HIV positive without knowing it, and also without being extremely promiscuous, then how many people can it also be spread to before somebody either starts showing symptoms or gets tested?