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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Their job is to collect blood, not to be your free testing service Running even a small risk of them not catching a disease in testing so that some dying patient gets your tainted blood is evil as hell
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Hello Arthur, Why should the onus to not be evil fall to the individual when the systems that we live in do it on a far larger scale? Regards, Customer Support
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Even from a purely selfish perspective, losing a bag of blood when you're possibly sick is a really bad idea for your own health The best thing to do if you think you're sick but can't get tested is assume you are and act accordingly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KropotkinPetyr
Even if this is for a purely bureaucratic need - you need an official diagnosis so you can get off work - it wouldn't *work* because for this purpose the blood bank is not a qualified healthcare provider
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Because of HIV stigma though, many of them will allow you to discretely mark that your blood is potentially infectious but you would like to have it drawn anyway This is to avoid people afraid of being outed from not disclosing, and is probably where this misconception is from
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @KropotkinPetyr
They don't do that anymore, they stopped giving you the "discreet label" because no one used it
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There're still several reasons a person might be rejected from donating blood. Husband is retired military & was in the UK during the Creutzfeldt-Jakob (mad cow) scare & to this day they refuse to let him donate.
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I didn't mean they stopped excluding people from donating, of course they do, I meant they don't do the "discreet label" anymore
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I didn't think that was the case. Only wanted to add reasons why "just donate blood" isn't a solution to the current failure to address testing for coronavirus (or other diseases, for that matter).
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