They used it all trying to bring mcconnell back to life
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Why would I donate blood so whoever can charge someone $25k to use it?
Oh my god dude just take some time off the internet.
You ever been to a hospital in the USA? Not even that hyperbolic of a comment.
Because it's painless, barely takes any time, and can save a life.
I try to do it whenever I can, but sadly recently tats and piercings are a common disqualifying factor.
Yeah, it's the right thing to do and paying for blood can contaminate the results and get very dystopian
Because ultimately it is needed to save someone's life, and there's no other way allowed to get it to them.
My mom is an ER nurse and she said a few times a year they get a batch of defective bags. You try to use them and they just burst, like they’re sealed wrong. So that sucks.
Too many vampires
There is too much microplastics in our blood now that not even vampires wanna touch that shit.
I'm o negative and I donated blood once. I shit you not, they called me hundreds of times after that. They called me once or twice a day for months.
I asked them to change my phone number, to remove my phone number, to please stop calling. I told them that I had died, that I'd taken up heroin as a hobby, that I'd begun having gay sex. They kept calling.
I will never donate blood again.
Oh no you’re slightly inconvenienced. The horror!
Fuck off. Constant spam calls are not a negligible inconvenience.
O negative is one of the most valuable blood types. So they obviously want it.
isnt there still a shit ton of restrictions for people, making its extremely inconvenient, plus the sites that does the donations are very low in each city. like you have std, or taking medication, or had sex,,,,etc.
even though they "soft-lifted the resitrction from gay men, there still potential for discrimination.
It's wild, they do "batch testing" with samples from many different people in one go, and if anything turns up positive, they discard everyone's donations. I used to donate plasma, but a batch test revealed somebody with hepatitis. I immediately went to a doctor to get tested and it came up negative. Unfortunately, due to having my sample in the batch test, I was already deferred from ever donating anything in the US again.
Random people have told me there are ways to get back on the donor list, but that's not what I was told by professionals. So here I am, with perfectly fine blood, barred from donating because I happened to donate at the same time as somebody who was sick. Such a great system.
Supplies of every blood type are currently needed, but especially O positive.
Wouldn't that be O negative, the universal donor?
O positive is the most common blood type, and apperently O-neg folk can handle O-pos once, so O-pos is generally the most commonly used for a crisis. Source: MD partner just checked openevidence Edit: O-pos is 40% of the population, O-neg is 6%, so they prefer to use O-pos. The real risk is just not having enough blood. Reading more, some 2019 source says only 1 in 2 million O-neg would die from O-pos blood. So really, almost everyone can use O-pos
TIL thank you for the education.
They're just looking on the bright side, stop with the negativity. /s
Donating blood can slightly reduce your amount of microplastics and PFAS since the blood your body makes to replace the donated blood will not contain those things.
I used to joke that the reason I donated was to reduce the microplastics in my blood. I feel so pleasantly vindicated now.
That's if you consume non-contaminated fluids and solid foods, right?
Well, those things probably just accumulate in your body over time. So loosing some blood will reduce the concentration, even if you don't avoid intake.
Donating has always been on my to-do list, but I just never made the time. I think I did it once 25 years ago in high school.
I finally made the time about a month ago, and they made it so easy I told them to keep a standing appointment every two months (the maximum.) Found out I'm O-, so I feel like I'm doing some real good.
If you're O- you're going to be begged to donate for the rest of your life now
An O- friend of mine donated blood ~10 years ago before learning he can get paid for plasma donations. 10 years of regular plasma donations (and no blood donations), he still gets monthly calls asking him to donate blood
Gotta make ends meet though. Free cookies and juice don't pay rent
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