Last night I was watching *** as Folk. I thought first that it was neat that they actually went and got real swimmers to play the roles of high school swimmers. Then when the races began, they had the teenager who had become HIV while trying to survive hit his head on the wall. I think that the only reason they did any of the story was so that they could have some one call out the word ***, have people scream about contaminated blood & be very histerical.
So this morning, I called a friend who works in Denver with they county AIDS task force and asked if he could find any case of anyone getting HIV from blood in the water or if there had been any studies of HIV virus living in chlorinated water. It can't.
I was wondering how anyone would react if this happened in real life to them. What would you do if you were swimming in a pool and some one began to bleed badly? I'm sure I've swam with some one who is/was HIV+, afterall I've lived in our nation's capital.
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If I saw someone get really badly cut the first thing I would do would be tend to them. Being a lifeguard, even off duty, I'm sure I would get in trouble for not acting, assuming there was no other lifeguard there. Then I would probably shut down the pool and shock it (not sure what chemical it is, but you basically dump a lot of it in the pool and let it filter out for about an hour). Of course you'd have to make sure that no one comes in contact with the blood by using gloves and such. If someone did come in contact with it, assuming they didn't get the blood into a cut or something, I would say have them wash really well. If they did get it in a cut, I most likely would send them to a doctor just to be safe.
If I saw someone get really badly cut the first thing I would do would be tend to them. Being a lifeguard, even off duty, I'm sure I would get in trouble for not acting, assuming there was no other lifeguard there. Then I would probably shut down the pool and shock it (not sure what chemical it is, but you basically dump a lot of it in the pool and let it filter out for about an hour). Of course you'd have to make sure that no one comes in contact with the blood by using gloves and such. If someone did come in contact with it, assuming they didn't get the blood into a cut or something, I would say have them wash really well. If they did get it in a cut, I most likely would send them to a doctor just to be safe.
