BBC News: Contaminated blood scandal inquiry announced (Expect Some JW Propaganda Over This!!)

by pale.emperor 11 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  pale.emperor

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40566761

  An inquiry will be held into the contaminated blood scandal that left at least 2,400 people dead, the prime minister has confirmed.

  It will establish the causes of the "appalling injustice" that took place in the 1970s and 1980s.

  NHS patients were given blood products that were infected with diseases, such as hepatitis C and HIV.

  Families of those who died will be consulted about what form the inquiry should take.

  It could be a public Hillsborough-style inquiry or a judge-led statutory inquiry, Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed.

  The prime minister's spokesman said: "It is a tragedy that has caused immeasurable hardship and pain for all those affected and a full inquiry to establish the truth of what happened is the right course of action to take.

  "It is going to be a wide-ranging inquiry."

  The spokesman said the decision to hold an investigation had been prompted by new evidence.

  How long until this is mentioned on the platform? Ah we were right, "scientists" were wrong.

  But they wont mention the many lives blood has saved.
  
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  pleaseresearch

  They will be rubbing their hands over this one.

  But what's the figure of JW's dying because of refusing blood in the first place. Much higher than the figures coming out of this blood scandal. But it's shocking how incompetent the NHS have been over this.
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  Splash

  That BBC report says the diseases were transmitted when patients accepted the blood clotting fraction "Factor VIII":

  BBC: They needed regular treatment with a clotting agent Factor VIII, which is made from donated blood.
  

  JW's can't claim they were protected from this danger because it is a blood fraction, not one of the four banned components.

  *** w00 6/15 p. 30 Questions From Readers ***
  For example, clotting factor VIII has been given to hemophiliacs, who bleed easily. Or if someone is exposed to certain diseases, doctors might prescribe injections of gamma globulin, extracted from the blood plasma of people who already had immunity.... Should Christians accept these fractions in medical treatment? We cannot say. The Bible does not give details, so a Christian must make his own conscientious decision before God.

  So if a JW tells you they were protected in this case by their blood policy, please tell them they were not.
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  pale.emperor

  That BBC report says the diseases were transmitted when patients accepted the blood clotting fraction "Factor VIII":

  BBC: They needed regular treatment with a clotting agent Factor VIII, which is made from donated blood.
  

  JW's can't claim they were protected from this danger because it is a blood fraction, not one of the four banned components.

  *** w00 6/15 p. 30 Questions From Readers ***
  For example, clotting factor VIII has been given to hemophiliacs, who bleed easily. Or if someone is exposed to certain diseases, doctors might prescribe injections of gamma globulin, extracted from the blood plasma of people who already had immunity.... Should Christians accept these fractions in medical treatment? We cannot say. The Bible does not give details, so a Christian must make his own conscientious decision before God.

  So if a JW tells you they were protected in this case by their blood policy, please tell them they were not.

  Well spotted Splash!
  
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  darkspilver

  FWIW below is the discussion from two months ago - which includes the Watchtower's Question from Readers from 1990
  

  Also includes the one hour BBC television documentary that was aired in May 2017:
  

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4882693948964864/bbc-programme-re-contaminated-blood-dub-blinkers
  
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  steve2

  Well it would be kind of desperate for JWs to be gleeful over this finding that has come to light from the 1970s and 1980s. They will glide right over the fact that blood transfusions are now safer than ever - and that there are zero effective alternatives to transfusions when there has been massive blood loss.
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  pleaseresearch

  My mum rang me saying watch the news, she even went as far as saying she was going to record it. OMG!

  But well spotted (Splash) that this could have affected them too.
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  Anony Mous

  In the 1970s people didn't know about HIV and barely knew about HepC, they did know that the world was ending in 1975 though. Either way, how many of those people would've survived without the transfusion?
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  BluesBrother

  I have already had a basin full of this at home following a BBC documentary a few weeks ago. "You see, we were right! .....I would never have one..we were protected'"

  In vain I pointed that factor eight was, and is permitted by the WTS ...and the current blood card does not even allow you to be a total abstainer. They still would not have it.

  Because of that fact though, I don't think we will see anything from on high about it.
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  Tallon

  Lloyd Evans (Cedars) has published on Twitter and interesting counter argument;

  https://twitter.com/cedarsjwsurvey?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor