OK WTF? So someone contracted HIV in Bali from getting a tattoo. BULLSHIT!
Indonesian officials said last year that the number of known HIV/AIDS cases on Bali was soaring, with one in four prostitutes reported to be HIV-positive and the number of infections jumping almost 19 percent from the year before.
PROSTITUTES! Guy gets drunk, get s a tattoo, fucks a prostitute comes home with HIV. THEN blames the tattoo?? what the hell. If someone wants to enlighten me then please go ahead.
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A guy (or girl) gets a tattoo from someone NOT wearing gloves, NOT using sterile needles.... simply described? an idiot! There has been many many debates over tattoos - from the whole biblical point of view to the ones who are simply refusing to accept people with tattoos, and a plethora of other arguments about it.
In this day and age with all the available access to information, one would think that you would be smart enough NOT to get a tattoo shop from a dodgy looking place, right? I thought we had less idiots in the world but alas it seems they're still there walking among us with their heads up their asses. Or was it intentional because they had nothing to live for anyways, so a bit of 'compensation cash' would be good? I should hope not!
There is no way someone could contract the HIV virus from someone giving them a tattoo that was wearing gloves and using sterile (and most tattooists these days do not reuse needles - each new customer gets a brand spanking new needle from a sterile packet, opened in front of the customer to prove it is sterile) even if the tattooist had the virus! it is a BLOOD-BORNE virus, which means it is contracted through bodily fluids - be it blood, saliva or *ahem* reproductive fluids(lol) .
If you asked for my personal opinion the person who contracted it should have done their research better. We are all able to make our own decisions. This person made the decision to go into a dirty tattoo shop to be tattooed... no way could it happen in a clean shop.
My husband and I have a friend who owns two tattoo shops in Bali and he is very VERY big on hygiene and uses brand new needles and gloves and for each and every client, each and every time they sit in his chair. It really gets my goat that now his shops are in jeopardy (and all the other ones that are doing the right thing!) because of this one idiot being placed in the limelight. The media has got people pumped "don't get a tatt in Bali you could get HIV" pfft. Don't believe the hype - just don't be a fuckwit - check out the joint first. I HATE that so many shops in Bali will suffer now because of this. HATE how the media generalises everything.
So the article says 'All the evidence points to a tattoo received recently in Bali as being the source of the infection," Western Australia's Department of Health said in a statement dated Friday.
"This case demonstrates the very real health risk in having this type of procedure done overseas"
OK, so this brings me back to my point of doing research first. Do Doctors that work with HIV patients gets HIV? well, no...they wear gloves and take other precautions. This is what most tattoo shops do too... take precautions, not only to protect themselves but to protect their valued customers. I would like to know more about how the evidence points to it being the tattooing that caused the HIV. If anyone has any links please do share them. It interests me.
So, that's today's discussion. Feel free to join in :) (I realise this is a new blog and possibly won't get comments until more people know about this blog, but all the same, feel free to join in at any time :) )
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