0z79: Sensei Can You See: meanmutton: As long as they are getting very specific with individual acts and behaviors, recognizing that not every sexual act has the same chance at HIV transmission, this is a good idea.

Men who engage in only oral sex with another man in a monogamous relationship absolutely dont have the same chance at HIV transmission as men who bareback bottom for random Grindr hookups, for instance. But they do need to recognize that not every sex act has the same chances of disease transmission.

I worked in a state hospital when AIDS first came on the scene. I attended a meeting at which we discussed enhanced protocol with at-risk patients for blood and body fluid handling and disposal. A guy I worked with, with whom I got along just fine and who was gay, tried to hijack the meeting by complaining about discrimination and homophobia and so on.

The clinical director shut him down and said, "Listen, those are good questions and a valuable discussion, but not here. There's a great deal we don't yet know about this virus, and we will be following these new JCAH guidelines, for your safety and our patients' safety."

Several months later we attended another meeting for more protocol changes, these about handling sharps (electric razor heads, disposable razors, syringes and so on. They also mentioned the updated policies about donating and using blood products. This set my friend off again, but the director shut him down even faster: "This is NOT the time and place for this discussion! Surgical patients all over the country are contracting HIV from tainted blood, so your grandstanding is unprofessional. Either you get with the program here or you find another job."

My friend decided to keep his job, but he and I discussed it a number of times. His position was that all these new restrictions were just good excuses to persecute gay people;  mine was that in the absence of an effective screening apparatus, it was totally possible to take steps to keep tainted blood out of circul ...

You never closed your parenthetical.

Resident Muslim: rebelyell2006: It all seems a bit silly, considering the fact that HIV spread internationally because corporations were getting super-cheap blood for blood factors from prisons and inner city clinics with known drug problems, not from the gay community.

Source?
I'd imagine if that was the case a LOT of blood transfusion patients would have gotten sick at that period. I don't recall anything like that.

/I recall patients getting sick, just not the number your scenario would allude to
//also sounds worse than a chain gang
///I trust me memory in general, but not always, hence the request