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 @scp_localhost @6502_ftw
You can't donate whole blood for cash, it's illegal People who donate for cash are donating plasma, which is used for research and as an ingredient to synthesize drugs, not for transfusion into people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw
...and it is illegal not because people were making a living that way but instead selling their lives by the pint to survive. If you are ~well off and scam donation you are stupid and despicable. The ~other people deserve our empathy/sympathy not our derision.
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Replying to @scp_localhost @6502_ftw
Well, no, the primary reason to ban selling blood is that if there's money involved there's a financial incentive for people to lie about their exposure to infection and that endangers the blood supply and dying patients
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Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw
The ethical concern about the specter of someone's health failing because they donated too much and died is a factor, sure, but not the main one When they moved to end paid donation it was after WWII had already normalized volunteer donation as the main source of blood
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Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw
Look, I was a volunteer for the Red Cross, and it was a very long time ago (in high school) but I still learned a lot of shit about trying to destigmatize blood banking based on a lot of the lurid bullshit images people have of it so this conversation really rubs me the wrong way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw
Isn’t AB plasma used to combine with O negative blood to make a universal blood bag?
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