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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have vasovagal syncope. It helps to be hydrated, lie down and to clench your big butt muscles but basically there’s nothing you can do.

Honestly blood donation and blood shortages are all kind of shady. The whole industry is sort of sketch. But important. I suspect a doctor would say if you have vasovagal, they’d rather you didn’t donate unless directed to do so for a family member or something. [/quote]

Wtf. Let’s hope you never need blood. I’m certain a doctor would NOT tell you not to donate, since vasovagal is harmless [/quote]

It’s not harmless if you hit your head. I often puke too. It’s a headache for the blood donation staff.

You donate blood, and the Red Cross sells it to hospitals. The blood is okay maybe but plasma sales are predatory.

If a doctor or someone I trust tells me they genuinely need blood, of course I’m happy to give it. But the industry is just like any other industry and they rely on revenue to keep the people employed and the wheels in motion so they’re motivated to play up demand and make donors feel needed. [/quote]

Like look at the story in Axios.

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/10/red-cross-blood-shortage

What it says is that the Red Cross has had a drop in donors. I believe it. It also says if doctors don’t have blood, that can affect patient care. I believe that too.

There are ZERO quotes in here from hospitals or doctors. No public officials saying this is a problem. No stories about patients lacking needed blood. Nada.

This reporter just took a press release from the Red Cross and ran it. Which, okay, I’m sure if there is sleight of hand here it is not our most pressing problem.

But we can be assured that if our local hospitals are genuinely running out of blood, we will hear about it from hospitals and public officials and not just the Red Cross press office.

The US actually EXPORTS a lot of plasma, because we allow groups to pay poor people to “donate” it and other countries don’t. [/quote]

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