The long awaited ‘National Health Scandal,’ (and certainly one of their worst) is after all these years, about to be wrapped up. I
nfected blood, that wasn’t properly tested. An estimated 38,000 people inadvertently got HIV as a result. Many would have died well before their time. A lot got stigmatised as being a bum bandit, even though they were straight. It could strike anyone.
I remember The well known tennis player Arthur Ashe, a ‘buttoned down hetersexual’ who in 1988 learned he had the virus from a blood transfusion following a heart operation back in 1983, and did not live to make old bones.
It did not discriminate between age, colour or sex, so women could get it as well.
Was it racist, sexist, climate change, or something else back then? Not sure of any of those factors, but it certainly started out as homophobic, I recon that was for sure.
Nominated by: Lord Scunthorpe
“It was 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 contaminated blood, not being bummed by over 3000 men”
Extract from the autobiography “A Life, In His Own Words” by Freddie Mercury.
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As long as that foul ginger bender Lloyd Russell Moyle doesn’t get any dough the dirty bastard.
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An awful medical blunder in hindsight…but as usual it’s being portrayed as some sort of gigantic conspiracy.
There wasn’t institutional negligence,the AIDS was not properly identified nor understood at the time this awful business took place.
Anyhow expect the Taxpayer cheque book to get some hammer.
Cunts.
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Never mind Unk; as long as lessons are learned…
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“AIDS was not properly identified nor understood at the time”…
This is true Unkle T, but when it was discovered, the facts were hidden in a filing cabinet, as governments usually do when there’s a scandal, hoping it would not be noticed or just go away.
Their was no effective treatment or cure, but the ruling elite were quite happy to let people waste away and die, sometimes not even knowing the reason why.
Prepared to let families fall apart – husbands/wives, blaming their partners for cheating or lying believing that infifelity must be the cause. Making children spend years tied up in courts trying to get the truth out and their dead parents reputations restored.
Not a doctor or nurse scandal, but a Government – politicians – civil service – ruling class scandal – and one that so rightly was finally and completely exposed.
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Didn’t the evil virus come from Africa, eating infected monkeys (bumming them more likely).
Demand reparations from Africa!!
Spread around the world by bum boys and didn’t they kick off about not being allowed to give blood.
Disgusting, but not to worry, the straight white men will pick up the tab.
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This reminds me of Brass Eye. Blood transfusion = good AIDS, homosexual activity = bad AIDS.
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It is sad ,but it was a different era.
Costly enquiries do nothing.
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Nowt sad about it,
AIDS is like Corona
Or the common cold.
Everyone gets it sooner or later.
I’m riddled with it now.
(Toilet seat)
You can get it from line dancing.
That’s how Peter Stringfellow died.
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This is also why you don’t see vampires anymore.
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Well certainly not those vampires that used to hang around outside Mineshaft in NYC
A fave haunt of bum boy showman Freddie Mercury
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What about blood donated by the vaxxed?
Uncomfortable question.
Or worse yet blood from a vaxxed h0m0 who just returned from Thailand?
If I’m bleeding out just let me be.
Fuck it.
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Once they knew all about it, then that’s when they should have been screening the blood. I’m not sure of the time line though.
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It is a scandal, no doubt, and one that the NHS hoped could be swept under the carpet.
Unfortunately not, but how many years has it taken, and how many millions have been spent, to arrive at a conclusion that the man in the pub would have arrived at for the price of a pint?
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I used to give blood in the 70s, purely for the tea and biscuits. Somebody must’ve copped it after it lead back to my that l had Hepatitis B. Hope it was one of our lovable guests that would’ve got a ribbing from us. I had to take part in having a liver biopsy. I was then labelled with having Australian Antigen. Not sure whether I’m still a carrier, couldn’t be arsed to find out.
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I’ve never given blood and never will.
The thought it could save the life of someone like Jeremy vine,
Or some dinghy sailor..
No.
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