$100 from then and in today's money is about $400.
Make no mistake this was a lucrative enterprise which continued throughout the 1980s despite the government knowing about the risks in '83.
1 posted on
05/16/2024 1:28:17 AM PDT by
RandFan
To: RandFan
It’s still a big business today. Plasma centers pay money for well... your plasma. A human body regenerates it way more quickly than blood cells. Very long story. Worked years in the blood industry, building machines to process blood. Human and others.
2 posted on
05/16/2024 1:36:55 AM PDT by
sonova
(No money? You're free to go.)
To: RandFan
One pint and you begin to smell like boiled cabbage, urine, and farts? That’s just awful.
3 posted on
05/16/2024 1:56:20 AM PDT by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: RandFan
"What difference, at this point, does it make!" 
6 posted on
05/16/2024 6:07:43 AM PDT by
moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: RandFan
Back when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas. Lots of people died because of that tainted criminal blood.
7 posted on
05/16/2024 6:41:10 AM PDT by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
To: RandFan
Tainted Blood, wasn’t that a song by Soft Cell?
8 posted on
05/16/2024 6:42:00 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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