The virus doesn't live in your blood, it lives in your respiratory system, it isn't transmitted by blood They neither have this test at the blood bank nor need it So first of all this is false Second of all if it were true it would be a reprehensible thing to do https://twitter.com/vL0k0/status/1237117540297572354 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw
"There are no donor screening tests available for this virus. All donors are screened." https://www.bloodcenter.org/donate/donor/covid19-response/ … Two things though 1) Blood is needed from donors who aren't a risk (no travel, etc) 2) More reprehensible than donating for cash when you have neither $ nor insurance?
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Replying to @scp15487477 @arthur_affect
The reprehensible thing is donating suspect blood solely for the purpose of getting it screened (even if that were a thing, which it is not for coronavirus).
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Replying to @6502_ftw @arthur_affect
So you feel that donating blood representing a means to try to survive, whether for testing for [other] blood borne pathogens or compensation is reprehensible? Obviously everyone you care for is comfortably well off and well insured.
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Replying to @scp_localhost @arthur_affect
Man, you just go right in there for the bad faith arguments, don’t you? I never said anything about compensation, and I don’t have a problem with that. What I DO have a problem with is giving blood one thinks may cause grievous harm to the recipient if used solely for the test.
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Replying to @6502_ftw @arthur_affect
Bad faith was built into the thread. Is it reprehensible to steal bread to survive? Is it reprehensible to donate to know if HEP or HIV+ Vs. just food poisoned? Allow some space for a different Maslow layer before condemnation.
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Replying to @scp15487477 @6502_ftw
It is massively irresponsible to treat blood donation as a free HIV testing clinic, yes It's also not a very good idea - even at their most underfunded and overcrowded, the free HIV clinics they set up were still better and more reliable for testing for HIV
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Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw
Because they were *designed and set up for that purpose*, and blood donation centers are not They really did their best to keep anyone from using blood donation as a "free test", and the primary reason people did it anyway was stigma, not access
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Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw
I.e. "I don't want to go down to the AIDS clinic and be seen among the HIV+ people, I'd prefer to live in denial for now and just tell myself if I am infected I'll find out later at the office blood drive" This is a very harmful mindset
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Anyway you know the test they use for blood donations isn't definitive right The ELISA screening is, for obvious reasons, biased toward false positives rather than false negatives
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Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw
All it can actually tell you is "You may have HIV", not "You do have HIV" It lets you know right away to take precautions against infecting others but they have to do a second, more expensive test before you can start getting treatment
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