Pure freaking evil. Hollyweird has been pushing normalization of various shades of evil for a long time. Zombies, vampires, goth stuff, all manner of sexual depravity, etcetc.
A young friend who stayed with us for almost half a year in (?) 2017 I think, told me that when she was around 13 or so in school they pressured all the kids to donate blood to the Red Cross. Gave them perks, or some special credit or something. My friend did it due to social pressure and felt completely faint and horrible, she was and is very small, weighed about 90 pounds. She said the pressure was intense.
Of course they want young peoples’ blood, one of the articles I linked said people pay thousands of dollars for a liter. And I remember Q said basically that the Red Cross is a very bad org into all kinds of stuff like organ selling and the like, others may remember more.
Correction - 2018.
Red Cross is corrupt and used as a piggy bank.
Also many third world societies prize sons not daughters, so if they have a daughter and a “baby broker” pays them to take the daughter off their hands, they no longer care what happens to the daughter they sold. Sex trade, organ donating, blood donations, child bride organizations et al could “buy” unwanted daughters for their nefarious uses.
That is sick! 13! 90 pounds! No way she should give blood unless she has a sibling or relative who needs some rare something or other found in other members of that family.
I’m a little person. I wanted to give blood many a time but was turned away for not making the weight mark when it was 110, at least in my area at the time.
Then at some point it was lowered to 100 and I made it. But they couldn’t get the needle out because it was too big. They don’t have pediatric-sized needles for blood donations.
They finally got it out, of course, but it took the 5th, most inexperienced technician who had the knack.
The bruise was huge. The soreness terrible. I could not do many things with that arm for a while.
Now that I’ve put on weight and could make the cut off if it were raised above 110 I still can’t give because my veins are too small.
So I don’t think giving blood is a good idea for your average kid of 13.
At the very least the red cross makes millions selling blood. Hard to say if there is any more to it than that. But the red cross has had its share of problematic claims.
You probably know this but they aren’t supposed to ACCEPT blood from those under 105, much less PRESSURE somebody for it. I knew somebody who told me about being rejected for being underweight. This was about 2004.