Apparently, applying the eligibility requirements to make normal people meet the same standards in sexual behavior as high-risk homosexuals probably actually DISQUALIFIED some low-risk heterosexuals who used to be regular donors.
All that new gay blood didn’t help ?
Who wants ole vaxed blood? Some vaxed people have found that lab techs had trouble drawing their blood.
I know a couple of those people.
Can you please elaborate on this? How would this disqualify less risky people?
Yeah....because to “the heat (aka: climate change)”. Hokay
I used to donate quite a bit because my blood type is not as prevalent in society but very useful. The red communist cross will be getting zero of my pureblood for the rest of my life.
Come on folks. Donate! It takes less than an hour and they treat you great while you do it.
I bank my own blood. Why depend on others for blood?
Hmmmmm .... too much “spiked” blood out there?
Disqualified due to serving in the UK ‘88-’93, and again in ‘08-’11. I stopped asking around 2001.
Risk of Mad Cow disease, doncha’ know.
I try to give as much as I can - I’m a chronic anemic so it isn’t always possible.
My dad, when he was dying of acute leukemia, needed constant infusions and I always thought of those people who were kind enough to donate. We have an uncommon blood type so it wasn’t always easy for the hospital to find blood for him, they even drove long distances to pick up the blood, and I am ever thankful for that, so I try to pay it forward as much as I can.
My friend recently donated and got two free tickets to an Angels baseball game - I’ve never received a thing, so the hospitals must be getting desperate.
Red Cross supplies about 40% of the nation’s blood in Ukraine.
Donate for the anti-Christian fascist Ukraine!
Shane Schaetzel
@ShaneSchaetzel
Apparently, Ukraine just voted to outlaw the Orthodox Church there. This would be the equivalent of the United States banning Catholicism during WW2 because Italy was controlled by the Axis Powers. Do you still think Ukraine is the good guy?
https://x.com/ShaneSchaetzel/status/1825887238577619066
I really soured on the Red Cross after 9/11.
Blood donor programs are the BIGGEST scams not only for the donors but for the recipients, too!
Blood-donor-program leech: “Let’s see if we can get away with this:
We’ll ask for FREE donations of blood from unsuspecting, do-gooder donors then we can SELL it to needy recipients at >$75/pint! Man-we’ll make a killing, huh?”
11 gallon lifetime Red Cross donor. I quit when the Woke Red Cross allowed homosexuals with contaminated blood to donate. No way can I support an organization that knowingly betrays and kills people. I wrote the Red Cross and told them and their response was to delete my iPhone donor app. No one should be surprised to see what woke had done to our health care system. People suffer and die.
On a similar note, there has been platelet shortages for many years. During treatment for AML, I was stuck in my hospital bed waiting while my numbers were at 2. I was not allowed to get out of bed, as one fall could have caused unstoppable internal bleeding.
So, if any of you donate blood, perhaps consider platelets too? Thank you.
Always thought that if they turn “donate” into “compensate” and offer $50 (or some amount greater than $20) per time, the shortage would disappear quite quickly. I’m sure when you need blood (for those with insurance) there is more than a $50 charge, probably a lot more and even the cash paying types get charged more (nothing can really come of the illegals at present for sucking away funds though). The way the gov prints billions just to piss away ($800M to bring Internet to rural communities and this administration connected zero homes or EV charging stations where DOT buttplug completed seven of a planned tens of thousands or grants to study why some part of the LGBT and rest of the alphabet people of purple haired obese lesbians are depressed) enough funds could be diverted to cover the costs of the blood compensation issues. For $50 I bet a lot of people would be happy to stop by the collection center on the way home from work every few weeks (or whatever the timeframe is between donations). Sure, more of the unqualified types would show up just for the money, but some of the funds could also go towards more screening or people have to be approved to be able to donate and only after health check could they then be on the approved list for future compensation. Of all of the things that tax money is spent on, blood shouldn’t be a hard decision. Do away with the useless department of education (since every state has their own state dept of ed) and you could probably easily cover the blood compensation program several times over. And just like that, two issues are solved.
Before I moved, I gave 152 whole blood donations. I am O-. I am in my 70’s now, but still workout and don’t want the downtime for recovery.
Why does my gut instinct tell me there’s more to the running out problem than lack of donors?
Air conditioner. This reeks of fake news. Even the buses have AC
Blood = Money, to the Red Cross.
The Red Cross is a corrupt organization.
I recently stopped to figure out what was going on with some test results.
Might have to donate again.