Make blood donation a mutual aid system

I’ve seen a few posts about having separate blood banks for people that didn’t get the MRNA shot, and it got me thinking that we’re not going far enough.

Instead of donating to blood banks like the red cross that go on to sell potentially-tainted blood to hospitals for a disgusting amount of money, set up a peer-to peer network.

For example, everyone in your county that opts in to the mutual aid network and matches your requirements (compatible blood group, clean of disease, and non-mrna tainted) would be on call to donate to you, and you to them. The pickier you are, the fewer potential donors you have, but also the fewer people with the right to use your blood.

The benefits include:

  1. You can put any qualifiers on the blood you’re willing to receive, and as long as there’s even a few people in the county who agree, you have donors.
  2. Blood will be fresher: the donor(s) will be in the room with you.
  3. Blood will be cleaner: a single donor is much less likely to be an unknown disease carrier than a sack of mystery juice from the red cross.
  4. Blood will be cheaper: no storage costs and no money going to financial parasites.
  5. Health insurance will be cheaper for people in the mutual aid system for all the above reasons.

The downside is that the response time to call in living blood bags from their homes or place of work is going to be too long for genuine emergencies. People might need to take shifts loitering at the hospital in case there’s an emergency. If you’re in a pool of just 1000 people, that’s only about 9 hours a year active duty.

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