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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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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But, again, the major reason to stop doing it was the public health implications of the bad incentives (if one of those people gets sick will they *really* volunteer that info and give up their extra $50 per session) And the AIDS crisis sealed the deal on that one
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