People are getting their panties in a twist for nothing.
I can't donate blood. Why? Because I have spent too much time in the UK over the years, the land of the mad cow, and Canadian Blood Clinics preclude people who have spent a certain amount of time in the UK and parts of Europe from giving blood on the one in a 100 million chance we've picked up mad cow disease at some point in the last 20 years.
I think it's a silly decision on their part as the odds are very low and I'm not sure there's a lot of evidence for transmission of mad cow disease via blood transfusions, but I wouldn't suggest boycotting or closing blood clinics because they discriminate against Brits.
__________________
Si vis pacem parabellum.
|