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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The primary reason they still had paid donors until the 70s was to *stabilize* the blood supply, so if the supply was running low they could have people "on call" who they knew would come in and donate because it was like a part time job
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They were primarily poor, yes, and it was arguably an exploitative system, but the image of anonymous homeless people being rounded up to give blood is false, it goes against the entire point The paid donors were a pool of *known* "regulars" they thought they could trust
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