Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.

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  • I think the larger issue is that the blood supply is for profit in the US. Everyone is getting exploited, including the people that require the transfusion.

    I donate regularly in Canada and give it away for free as does everyone else. I don’t donate plasma because it’s not especially useful with my blood type (AB+ is universal for plasma, O- for other products).



  • Dr. Bob@lemmy.catoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works21 August 2024
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    3 months ago

    The comment that stood out to me was someone saying “but that was 44 years ago”. I was a teenager then and poor people didn’t sell pencils on the street in 1980 either. It was an old trope from the 40s? 50s? Much like I’ve never seen an organ grinder with a monkey or poor children selling matches.