You can't get HIV off a toilet seat!

A couple of days ago, there was a post on INNIT, something like "Virgin contracted AIDS" and when I clicked on it, it was a blogger Marc commenting that his friend's friend (Mary), the poor girl, sat on a dirty toilet in a hospital and contracted AIDS!

You can't get the HIV virus off a toilet seat! Didn't they teach you that somehwhere in the 90s?

I then proceeded to write on his tag board something like "Don't believe Mark. You cannot get AIDS from a toilet".

And soon enough, I received a nasty reply on my tag board.

He's right, it's his blog he can write what he wants. If I don't like what he blogs, I don't have to visit it. (Believe me, I won't be back)

I've only been there once, and that was when I saw his TRUE story warning readers NOT to use public toilets in hospitals because his friend's friend contracted AIDS from using it! And that's utter nonsense. I can't believe any educated adult of our time would buy into that story. So I felt compelled to write a comment on his tagboard to say that you cannot get AIDS from a dirty toilet seat. But he took such offense with my comment... to the point that he came to my blog and told me to "keep your stupid bimbotic comments to yourself".

This I find... extremely unjustified. How is pointing out to the masses (that could be mislead by his post) that AIDS cannot be contracted off a toilet seat, a "stupid bimbotic comment"? Can someone explain? I really don't get it.

I am appalled that despite the wealth of information available on the HIV virus, people are still so ignorant.

Click to go to his post on Marc's Macrocosm

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To contract AIDS, there must be an exchange of bodily fluids and these fluids must enter the blood stream of the person recieving the virus. Example if you have a blister on you buttock and it breaks when you are sitting on the toliet seat and you have AIDS, the virus is now on that seat. Since the virus can only live outside the body for a extremely short peroid of time, a person would have to then immediately sit down on that seat and have a open sore in the exact place that virus is now on the seat.

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From wiki answers: HIV is a retro virus that has a very short lifespan especially when exposed to air.
For someone to acquire HIV from a toilet seat there would have to be some extremely FRESH biological matter present (semen) and the person who sits on this deposit of matter would have to have an open wound that makes direct contact with the semen.
I say semen because the concentration of the HIV disease in other bio waste is not high enough to be viable.
To sum it up......it is close to impossible to get AIDS (HIV) from a toilet seat.

The HIV virus is actually a quite delicate, easily killed virus. It does not survive outside of its human carriers for more than short periods... It really would take quite a large innoculum (viral load) before there would be a statistically possible transfer. Health care workers have these minor exposures all the time. If it were this deadly, we all would have been gone a long time ago.

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So the only way this "Mary" girl in his post could have realistically contracted AIDS while sitting on a toilet would be if she were fucking a HIV infected man at the same time.. on the toilet.

Either that or, the toilet seat in that particular hospital has razor sharp spikes. And our poor virgin (friend of his friend) despite seeing a bloody or semen covered toilet seat, covered with skin piercing spikes, still sat on it and took a shit.

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Ok, Marc, sorry if I insulted you because I used the common spelling for Mark instead of Marc. My mistake on that one.

But really Marc, if your blog is supposed to be about your "Transcendental Perspectives of Life" and you truly believe that getting AIDS from a toilet seat is your friend's true story, then you need to get a book on AIDS and read it.