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pollyclay

how everyone in the past thought 2018 was going to be: a perfect utopia!! there are flying cars and cancer has been cured!! all of our problems have been solved with Science™!

how 2018 really is: this is our 307th mass shooting we’ve had this year and nobody has tried to fix this issue

whimsicalsesquipedalian

As an Australian I have no idea whether that figure is real or exaggerated, but either way I am so upset by this!

pollyclay

nope! that figure is real. as of november 8th, there have been 307 mass shootings in 2018, in just america alone, and about one third of all mass shootings occur in america as well

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whimsicalsesquipedalian

I am so viscerally horrified by this, I honestly don’t know how to process the scope of this information

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For the details with no paywall:

More gay and bisexual men will now be able to donate blood under finalized FDA rules

While the number of people eligible to donate blood has expanded, the agency says it will continue to monitor the safety of the blood supply

NPR

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The article says that the guidelines have been updated. Instead of asking if you’re a man that’s had sex with another man in the past 3 months it asks everyone regardless of gender if they’ve had anal sex with a new partner or if they’ve had anal sex with multiple partners in the past 3 months.

This both opens up blood donation to msm in exclusive relationships or who don’t have anal sex and more accurately identifies hiv risk from people who aren’t msm. This is exactly the sort of guidelines we’ve been fighting for for years. This is a major win for both gay rights and blood donation in the US. Now a bunch of people who couldn’t donate before can donate now.