on that note: the FDA recently overhauled all their eligibility guidelines wrt high risk behaviours for contracting bloodborne diseases like hepatitis and HIV to be what they should be—behaviour is the only factor addressed, w/ neither gender nor sexuality being taken into account in that behaviour!
anyway, even if I do want to strangle some people, I will continue to donate and educate, I just really wish I had a pocket dimension for screaming into sometimes
(yes, I know this was implemented twenty years and more past when it should have been but the point is that they DID finally.)
they have also lifted the overwhelming majority of the travel restrictions including, critically, the variant cjd ones that applies to the UK and France!
there are also very few medical conditions that are deferrals of any kind, at this point, as long as you’re feeling well at the time of donation. there’s a SHORT list of medications that are a deferral, but it is genuinely short and none of the commonly prescribed psychiatric medications are on it!
If the tattoo was performed in a state-regulated shop, using sterile needles and single-use ink, you're fine to donate now. If it was performed in Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wyoming, Washington, D.C., it's a 3 month deferral.
Oh good, I’m glad! (Well, not that you have to wait but you know where to look.) I just know not everyone knows where to look, and either way I wanted to surface the details for others, because the CDC has been absolutely *terrible* about educating people about the eligibility updates.
