Justice Department Forces Hairstyling School to Admit HIV-Positive Student

[SourD]

Originally Posted by Strel

Unless I see some data regarding HIV being transmitted in this way (you would both have to be cut simultaneously, or they would have to bleed in your mouth or something, and even THEN it's still unlikely) I'm not going to worry about it, since the likelihood of it happening is so low that it is not even worth considering by any sane person.

You remind me of the kids that thought you could catch it from toilet seats back in the 1980's.

How do you know your stylist doesn't have hepatitis? Typhoid fever? Bubonic plague?

Seriously. You had better not leave the house. It's too dangerous. Just stock up on canned cat food and tinfoil and you'll be fine.

Like I said, if you don't mind people with highly deadly diseases that transmit through blood working on you with sharp objects, that's on you. I think there is something wrong with you, but that's just my opinion. Is a surgeon with HIV allowed to operate on people? I bet not.

[mlassoff]

Originally Posted by SourD

There absolutley is. They work with sharp objects. Enough said...

Please point to a documented case of HIV being transmitted this way. If you can't (which is the case, since HIV isn't transmitted through hair cuts-- even if the stylist cuts themselves) then it's just another case of ignorance driven by bias.

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

Originally Posted by SourD

Is a surgeon with HIV allowed to operate on people? I bet not.

Yes, as far as I know, HIV-positive surgeons are allowed to operate on people.

[Memphis1979]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

No. I don't know of any state in the country that requires an HIV test for cosmetologists. Guess you'll have to start cutting your own hair if you want to stay safe.

Well like I said, its just a personal thing for me. Nothing against people with HIV, just if I know, I would chose another stylist.

[Memphis1979]

Originally Posted by mlassoff

Again, please provide a documented case of it actually happening.

Since you are so worried about these types of possibilities, I assume you are for the strictest gun control standards?

Look, I don't know where you think I'm at on this issue. I really don't care one way or another if a stylist is banned from a school or not. I think if the school is privately funded then the government should mind their own damned business, but other than that, it doesn't matter to me.

I don't care if a HIV positive person wants to cut hair, none of my business.

What is my business is that I choose for personal reasons not to have my hair cut by someone who is HIV positive. Its just my choice. Kind of like saying I don't want someone wearing a purple scarf cutting my hair. Its my choice where I get my hair cut, thats my right.

I never once said that someone that is HIV positive shouldn't be allowed to cut hair.

As far as an example, HIV has been passed through blood to blood contact. Transfusion is blood to blood contact. The chance that a droplet of blood touching a small wound on me of giving me HIV would be trillions to one probably, I understand that. But its my choice not to take a unnecessary risk.