"It shouldn't be illegal for people with AIDS to spit at, bite or throw blood at "

[novasteve]

people

Letters: HIV laws have always been inexcusable - latimes.com

Say if the person has a cut and they have HIV infected blood thrown on it?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Has that ever happened?

 

[novasteve]

If it hasn't why do they want the laws repealed? So they can start?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Perhaps because the laws reflect ignorance.

 

[novasteve]

Perhaps because the laws reflect ignorance.

So do carbon tax proposals.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Why do you support outdated and unnecessary laws?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Perhaps because the laws reflect ignorance.

So do carbon tax proposals.

Sure. What does that have to do with what we're talking about?

 

[novasteve]

Man fights law banning blood donations by homosexuals - WNEM TV 5

They ignore scientific reality here too..... It takes 2 weeks to 6 months for HIV to show up in blood testing.... You could be infected the week before and infect the recipient.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

You already have a thread on that story.

Why are you trying to change the subject?

 

[Sunshine]

Perhaps because the laws reflect ignorance.

So, doctor pork chop, why are health care personnel required to shield themselves from ALL body fluids and with failure to do so resulting in fines on the facility OSHA into the tens of thousands of dollars?


And why are they required to gown and glove when reconstituting freeze dried factor VIII in case the vacuum packed bottle explode and infect them?

Been there, had to do all of that.


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[theDoctorisIn]

Perhaps because the laws reflect ignorance.

So then why are health care personnel required to shield themselves from ALL body fluids and with failure to do so resulting in fines form OSHA into the tens of thousands of dollars?

Because AIDS isn't the only disease in the world.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Perhaps because the laws reflect ignorance.

So then why are health care personnel required to shield themselves from ALL body fluids and with failure to do so resulting in fines on the facility OSHA into the tens of thousands of dollars?


And why are they required to gown and glove when reconstituting freeze dried factor VIII in case the vacuum packed bottle explode and infect them?

Been there, had to do all of that.


SS

It's also possible that the laws and OSHA regulations are based on the same ignorance as these spitting laws.

 

[Moonglow]

You will catch more diseases in a hospital than on the streets.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

You will catch more diseases in a hospital than on the streets.

My father recently had prostate cancer, and had surgery.

He recovered from the cancer quickly, but a staph infection he picked up in the hospital kept him bedridden for months.

 

[bodecea]

Perhaps because the laws reflect ignorance.

So, doctor pork chop, why are health care personnel required to shield themselves from ALL body fluids and with failure to do so resulting in fines on the facility OSHA into the tens of thousands of dollars?


And why are they required to gown and glove when reconstituting freeze dried factor VIII in case the vacuum packed bottle explode and infect them?

Been there, had to do all of that.


SS

Are you ignorant enough to not know there are many many infectious diseases out there?

 

[Sunshine]

Perhaps because the laws reflect ignorance.

So, doctor pork chop, why are health care personnel required to shield themselves from ALL body fluids and with failure to do so resulting in fines on the facility OSHA into the tens of thousands of dollars?


And why are they required to gown and glove when reconstituting freeze dried factor VIII in case the vacuum packed bottle explode and infect them?

Been there, had to do all of that.


SS

Are you ignorant enough to not know there are many many infectious diseases out there?

Are you ignorant enough to not know that universal precautions came about solely because of AIDS?

SS

 

[JohnL.Burke]

It should be illegal for people with infectious diseases to bite other people. Is this really debatable?

 

[Sunshine]

When I went into nursing in the 80s, no one wore gloves except for either sterile or very dirty procedures. Hepatitis B was around then and Hep C was called 'non a non b.' But gloving was not required until AIDS. It was the early 90s when OSHA started fining facilities for things like nurses doing procedures ungloved, and for capped needles.


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[theDoctorisIn]

It should be illegal for people with infectious diseases to bite other people. Is this really debatable?

Of course it is. The law is nonsense because the law is specific to AIDS, and AIDS can't be transmitted by "biting".

 

[Sunshine]

It should be illegal for people with infectious diseases to bite other people. Is this really debatable?

Of course it is. The law is nonsense because the law is specific to AIDS, and AIDS can't be transmitted by "biting".

If the person doing the biting is bleeding from the mouth it most assuredly can.


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