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Thanks for your donations. A fun factoid: Less than 5% of the eligible population donates blood. FIVE. PERCENT. Most people give the really wussie excuse that theyâre afraid of needles. I tell them to think of the poor patients who get a lot more needles than the donor will ever see in their lifetime.
Just a quick energy boost, help to start replacing the blood volume, but your âblood sugarâ doesnât really decrease for donating only a pint of blood.
No one gets free blood. Even if you donate FOR the person (directed donations), there is still a charge: Paperwork, blood center personnel, blood pack, filter, equipment used to process the blood, testing, the blood centerâs building itself, storage, transport to the hospital, etc, etc, etc. By the way, donating specifically for someone isnât any guarantee of âsaferâ blood. Quite often directed donors are first-time donors, and may have a lifestyle that you donât know about.. Itâs better to receive blood from regular, multi-tested donors.
Oh, and the juice and cookies do not âreplace lost sugarâ.. Itâs just to give you a bit of an energy boost and start you on the process of regaining the blood volume you lost, plain and simple.
LOL!! Blood centers are not publicly funded by taxpayer dollars. Their operating costs come from the blood products themselves, for which patients pay when they are transfused. Blood is not free.Looks like Iâd better haunt this comic until the arc is finished to help combat the erroneous statements.
Thanks for your donations. A fun factoid: Less than 5% of the eligible population donates blood. FIVE. PERCENT. Most people give the really wussie excuse that theyâre afraid of needles. I tell them to think of the poor patients who get a lot more needles than the donor will ever see in their lifetime.