re: Miss South Africa Sparks Fury After Wearing Gloves With HIV-Positive Orphans

She was serving them food. HIV damages the immune system, making the children more susceptible to illness, like the kind you might get when served food that hasn't been properly cooked or handled. The gloves are for the kids protection, not for hers.

fricking morons...

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she felt like she had to wear gloves; don't go. Might it have offended the kids that she was visiting? No idea. They are probably used to it. It just seems ridiculous, to me.

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Good lord

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She was serving them food. HIV damages the immune system, making the children more susceptible to illness, like the kind you might get when served food that hasn't been properly cooked or handled. The gloves are for the kids protection, not for hers.

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All of this. AIDS or Acquired Immonodeficiency Syndrome attacks the immune system. The gloves aren't to prevent her from getting aids, Its to prevent children with weakened immune systems from getting sick because she has some bacteria on her hands.

Ehhh is that normal protocol? I would imagine that if she washed her hands properly, normal human flora wouldn't be an "exposure" to a HIV patient....especially one that isn't on their death bed.

eta - Especially since she's eating the food herself in that picture.

Each human has different "flora", especially between people from very different geographies.

You can downvote me all you want but those kids have HIV. Nowhere does it state that they have developed AIDS yet. They may not be in an immuno-compromised state in which wearing gloves to protect them is a necessity.

Either way, I don't fault the presence of gloves. I'd wear them too.

I am tired of fricking people who are so eager to be offended and who act like they have some right to not be.

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critics overreacting

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They're stupid, for any number of reasons.