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Hey I dont work in the industry anymore so can one of you guys pitch this idea.
Blood donor clinics will screen for COVID. We only need a drop but it costs you a pint.
The clinics will get enough blood to last a long time, record donations hopefully. At the same time you will have people feel like they could get the satisfaction of knowing they are clear of the virus. You could go back once a week and donate blood again and verify you are clear.
I think slowly the testing could be focused to donations rather then walk in tests. The coolest thing is that society in general would benefit. If this thing lasts let's say 2 or 3 years and you have a large number of people donating blood every week well then no blood shortage, right?
Could be a blood trade too and then the country you are giving blood to could verify all results. It would have beauracratic built in redundancies. Also if you had a mistake you will have the original donors information so you could further track down potential outbreaks.
I dont know but seems like a lot of wins, poke some holes in it.
- Just poked a hole. China could just mandate mandatory blood donations and flood American markets. Shit...eryx
- Think blood need is very low during this pandemic and blood doesn't last that long stored. But yeah, cool idea. Vampires will love it.grafician
- Also hospitals already using plasma from recovered patients to threat the already sick.grafician
- You would have to allow people to opt out. Forced "trading" of your blood for healthcare is some dystopian shit.nb
- Why stop at COVID? Why not require everyone to pay for govt services with blood?nb
- I did not envision a forced thing. Volunteer with benefits of knowing your test resultseryx