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https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/03/28/baker-joins-red-cross-in-calling-for-blood-donations-during-coronavirus/

Begging for blood donations.

Yet all elective surgery has been cancelled and social distancing has (I assume) drastically reduced the number of car accidents. So why so desperate for blood?

I know someone who works in health care who told me that the workload has dropped to 10% of what it was pre-covid. I doubt it’s that drastic across the board, but still that one anecdotal data point is very interesting.


1,248 posted on 03/28/2020 5:42:00 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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USNS Comfort made a Q after leaving port. Hmmmmm.

1,250 posted on 03/28/2020 5:44:23 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally
Some interesting Boat Info for your viewing pleasure, harvested from beyond the trees...

First, regarding the prison ship that is being watched.

Post 8603011 3 hours ago

EYES ON Anons, I am not a boatfag, but that WATKINS "ghost prisoner" ship seems like it's headed for New York Harbor somewheres. Look what the coordinates give you! LADY LIBERTY. Or thereabouts at least.

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Second, an interesting pattern was traced out by the Comfort, hospital ship after it left Norfolk!


1,253 posted on 03/28/2020 5:49:00 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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Maybe the Red Cross donates to the gov and asked him to get more blood for them to sell someplace.


1,255 posted on 03/28/2020 5:50:39 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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I’d weigh that against people maybe being afraid to donate blood because of fear of the virus. I haven’t donated in a while, and won’t for a little while longer as I’m on antibiotics for an ear infection (yes, an ear infection, not the Chinese Virus). don’t want to mix medicine into the equation.

That and I’m on something of a mandatory self-quarantine from the employer, with a very small number of co-workers still allowed to be physically at work (we can’t work at home, as our systems are on a very isolated network).

Anyway, the self-quarantine and fear is probably keeping a LOT of people from donating, and that means that supplies are possibly dwindling.


1,266 posted on 03/28/2020 5:54:47 PM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA!)
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Very interesting. Made me wonder if car accidents might be way down due to much fewer cars on the road. And come to think of it, I have not heard the normal daily reports of shootings in St. Louis, either.


1,315 posted on 03/28/2020 6:44:00 PM PDT by TrueFact (Don't hang out with narcissists or dems...but I repeat myself.)
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Things that make you wonder, huh?


1,373 posted on 03/28/2020 8:58:51 PM PDT by Bigg Red (WWG1WG)
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