Red Cross announces national blood shortage

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• downpunxx@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So, let me get this straight, we're supposed to DONATE our blood, which is then sold to Hospitals, and billed to patients insurance? Is that right? We're supposed to DONATE our blood, which, if we need blood in the future, we will then be billed for out of pocket if our insurance companies simply choose not to pay for the procedure? We're supposed to DONATE blood which we may have to pay for in the future, which might ruin us financially?

  Am I getting this right?

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  • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    America, land of the fucked.

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    • burgersc12@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So simple, yet so profound. I for one feel honored to be FREE™ enough to enjoy this fuckery

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  • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, we never put a system in place to support another method.

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  • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah fuck you pay me. We’re a capitalist nation let’s fucking capitalize.

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To save time for those who wonder which nation the title forgets to mention;

  The American Red Cross

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I used to donate all the time pre-covid.

  We had good people come to my office and I could give while on the clock.

  When COVID calmed down I tried to find a good place, but they’re all shitty and the stuff went down hill due to nursing shortage.

  Plus you have to usually go through a third party that makes money off it. And the shitty service is because they know people will donate anyways. Because I tried a couple, now I’m getting all types of spam calls, including an automated one that started out with a woman screaming “help, there’s been a car accident”.

  Lots more people would donate if it wasn’t a terrible fucking system.

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  • rock_hand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know they suck. But the people who need it get it and that’s what’s important. The spam is aggravating though.

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  • Phantom3805@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My coworker reached out and asked about being a donation center and they oblige. Your workplace probably just stopped working with them. We still do them regularly and never really stopped during covid.

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• neuropean@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For those wanting sustainable red cells, hit me up. I’m gonna modify the 500 genes or so in the pig genome to insert the human cDNA and make them compatible for xenotransfusion. Gonna need a gofundme though, probably gonna cost half a billion or so.

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• zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have an idea… how’s about we learn not to use the thickest needle on the smallest people? (I am speaking from a personal experience and know this probably isn’t the norm. But it has happened 2 to many times to my mom)

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  • Chetzemoka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately we have to use large bore needles for blood. Smaller needles will damage red blood cells :/

    (I'm a nurse. It's a problem when giving blood transfusions to smaller people also.)

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  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    18 gauge is the smallest possible for blood collection and delivery. It’s a pretty big gauge.

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• Pistcow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nice try, Vampires.

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• Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do they still actively try and discriminate against gay guys and their blood? Last I checked it disqualified you from donating if you had same sex action within the last 6 months.

  Maybe when they’re legitimately desperate (and not artificially for the sake of boosting numbers), they can set that aside or have realistic time periods for LGBT people.

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  • zabby@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe in August the rules changed a bit:

    Individuals who have had anal sex in the last three months may be eligible to donate as long as they did not have sex with someone new or with multiple partners during that timeframe.

    www.redcrossblood.org/…/lgbtq-donors.html

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• rock_hand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Seriously, if you can you should give blood. There’s no good reason not to for most people.

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  • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I donated regularly, until my hematocrit wouldn’t be high enough and I couldn’t anymore (tried a few times at a couple different places). It was over the course of a couple years, not just my trying to donate back to back. I’ve tried a few times over the years. But it’s been a while, maybe I’ll give it a shot again

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I've got blood. DM me if you want some.

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• TankieCatgirl@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sorry, my blood is too gay to donate. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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• tallwookie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  isnt synthetic blood a thing? I thought it was…

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I worked for a company 20 years ago that had already been trying to bring synthetic blood to market for 20 years.

    Far as I know they still haven’t released it.

    It’s really, really hard to do.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most of it is not approved for use in humans.

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    • btfod@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What does all this synthetic blood get used for, then?

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