[2aProtectsTheRest]

"The Red Cross doesn’t want blood."

That is false. That is contrary to what the Red Cross says themselves. People who have had a COVID-19 vaccine are "eligible to donate other blood products with the Red Cross including whole blood and platelets if they meet other donation eligibility criteria." The only thing they're not CURRENTLY able to donate is convalescent plasma and even that is changing. And even that had nothing to do with the Red Cross "not wanting" it. It was the FDA's recommendation. So Red Cross followed it. The FDA changed the recommendation. Red Cross states that they're working on changing their policy to follow the new guidance.

It's all right here in black and white:

Took 30 seconds to find this. So why post the original when it's clearly contrary to what the Red Cross states on their own site?

[bagster]

"The Red Cross doesn’t want blood." That is false.

They don't want your filthy, contaminated blood.

I don't blame 'em.

[ransomnote]

Took 30 seconds to find this. So why post the original when it’s clearly contrary to what the Red Cross states on their own site?
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Others have provided information to support the video clip so I won’t repeat their work.

You spent 30 seconds finding information that I put in the title and in the first line of text? I specified ‘convalescent plasma’ for the reader because the clip did not. It’d take you 4 seconds to read it but instead you went and searched the internet and then formatting an html response to chide me. *eye roll*

[Verginius Rufus]

I gave blood at the Red Cross last Monday and one of the questions on their questionnaire was whether I had had any kind of Covid vaccine. Since I answered "no," I didn't know what their policy would be if I had answered "yes."

I noticed that they have altered some of their questions--for example, they now want to know if someone has had a tattoo within the last three months (instead of within the last 12 months).