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I actually donate about twice a week to help pay bills. I agree with people hearing about the practice of blood for money and saying "that doesn't sound healthy.". I actually feel awful for 24 hours or more post donation.
It's also really cool you don't get saline anymore because the US is out of it. Just a Powerade and goldfish so you don't pass out driving home
Lol, it's not a "donation" it's a harvest. Capital is literally harvesting people for their bodily fluids under economic duress and later selling it back to them at jacked up prices when they're in medical duress.
America really going full George Oreo 1984 with this shit: "Yes, I'm off to 'donate' some blood and then swing by my 'food bank' to withdrawing some kcal from my savings account, you see."
Indeed, but it is worth saying that most blood plasma is used to develop drugs needed by people with (in some cases hereditary) diseases who would die without them. It takes something like ~130 plasma donations to produce a one year supply of life saving medication for someone with primary immunodeficiency which effects 1 in 2000 people
Even under communism we would need mass plasma donations to facilitate keeping those people alive and healthy, until we figure out how to manufacture antibodies in a lab without a human based donation. Hopefully it would be done with better consent (not under duress)
Capital is literally harvesting people for their bodily fluids under economic duress and later selling it back to them at jacked up prices when they're in medical duress.
holy fuck. what a potent way to present this
Socialists see scarcity as a problem to be solved.
Capitalists see abundance as a problem to be solved.
It's also really cool you don't get saline anymore because the US is out of it. Just a Powerade and goldfish so you don't pass out driving home
Jesus Christ
I used to get so cold in the plasma center as my blood was pumped back into me oh my god it was awful
i always kinda liked that part.. it made my teeth go numb and i liked that
that's pretty much how i survived college.. without plasma donations i would never have eaten
Liberals
tankies“America is uniquely bad.”
Seriously, out of all the shitty western nations Amerikkka has to be by far the worst, despite
’s best efforts.often liberals don't get this though, they will say some shit like "well Russia is just as bad", because they don't understand imperialism the primary contradiction
In Australia you actually donate blood, for free, and people still do it.
Granted the material conditions here aren't quite as bad yet
A lot of people do that in the US as well, most people I know have donated blood a couple times for no pay. It's simpler to donate blood than plasma. Not many people would donate plasma for free so they pay for it, but it is kind of ridiculous that people are desperate to sell their vital fluids.
Blood or plasma? I donate blood when I can because I want to, and it takes a few minutes.
Plasma takes about an hour because the process is more intense and way more uncomfortable
Just a Powerade and goldfish so you don't pass out driving home
Soy sauce is used instead
It's also really cool you don't get saline anymore because the US is out of it
No your donation center is scamming their patrons
I believe it's both. There is a "shortage" which I take is just one more step towards the country falling completely apart due to inept greed: https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2024-12-04-fda-says-empty-iv-bag-shortage-expected-last-through-march
But I also know that it's cheaper to give people a sports drink and crackers, and people will accept it, because they need the money
We're running out of sterilized salt water? The fuck? How?
I read an article there are all these bullshit health centres popping up that offer saline for anti aging, detox, and hangovers.
They're using so much saline that hospitals are forced to ration it so rich dumbasses can have expensive urine
I think something like a third or up to half of the total supply was produced in Puerto Rico or some south eastern state that got destroyed in a hurricane during the first trump admin. So that is one disaster/problem you can very squarely blame on Trump.
Honestly sounds weird to give saline after a blood/plasma donation if someone is fit and healthy. The Red Cross doesn't do that in Australia (and it's not paid just voluntarily). Just give you a bunch of water and something to eat. If your gut is working, oral replacement of lost volume is pretty quick.
Probably the difference in the US is the standards are lower and the people they're taking plasma from a less healthier, done more frequently, more vulnerable etc.
Probably not sterile IV saline. There's been a shortage of that and G5W for years.
I actually didn't know because we don't have goldfish crackers in my country. Lol.
I haven't had one in a while but from.my recollection they're pretty good. They're a tiny air puff thingy. Almost like a savory cereal that you eat dry
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Goldfish crackers
What if your goldfish isn't white? Mines like a yellowish orange
Sorry to tel you this, but somebody must not like you. They've giving you the jaundiced goldfish crackers.
A nice koi sashimi to help with the lightheadedness and overall sense of dread from living in America
Genuine question, do you not spend a fuckton more on food if you donate plasma regularly? Do they pay so much that it covers the extra food and then some?
I try to treat myself to a sandwich or something after, then pass out. It really makes me tired, so I do it after my 9-5. Weirdly, to your point, you think of the food your craving after and how much of your fluid is cost lol
Wait wait I signed up on some site promising me 800 bucks if I donate plasma like 7 times in a month.
Should I not be doing that?
I do it, and it gets me the money I need to pay bills. If you can zone out, donate, and bounce it's not the worst thing you can do for money.
I just get a bit angry when I think about too hard. The other comment is correct, the sign up bonuses are decent,.and I currently use the same donation center
until they poke through a vein and your arm swells up for a week
i think i got some kind of disease from doing this so often tbh.. i get these awful rashes on the insides of my elbows that i never had prior to doing the donations
ive done this thru biolife. imo its worth it for those visits but once you get all that paid out it drops to like 20 dollars per donation, and it takes like 2-3 hrs for the whole process so it becomes not worth it.
also biolife, the company i used was constantly trying to not apply coupons you came in to redeem. the last time i went they didnt apply my coupon, i went back and told them and she “fixed it” but surprise surprise it was never fixed so i never went back
I'm like 95% sure it is through BioLife. Ty for the thoughts
in the gloom of mighty cities
amid the roar of whirling Wheels
we are toiling on like chattle slaves of old
and our masters hope to keep us
ever thus beneath their heels
and to coin our very lifeblood into gold
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