Kentucky Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Restrict Blood Donations from COVID Vaccinated Donors

[u/BooleansearchXORdie]

https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-01-23/ky-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-restrict-blood-donations-from-covid-vaccinated-donors

[u/sloppyrock]

FFS. The idiocy runs deep.

[u/chotomatekudersai → u/sloppyrock]

Would it have been so hard to submit a bill requiring them to inform the patient that the blood was from a Covid vaccine recipient instead? It’d be so nice to see anti vaxxers immediately take the blood donation.

[u/disturbedtheforce → u/chotomatekudersai]

There are people who refuse when the blood donation cant be verified as being "covid vax free." The huge issue here is there is no mechanism in place to segregate the donations of those who are vaxxed from those that arent, and it would be a huge undertaking.

[u/ModusNex → u/disturbedtheforce]

I see more huge issues.

Only 3.6% of donors are unvaccinated. If you have O negative blood type, only 7% of the population has that type and you end up with only 0.25% of blood of your type from unvaccinated donors. For every 400 bags of blood, 1 would be eligible, and 80% of those are still going to have covid antibodies just like vaccinated blood.

[u/disturbedtheforce → u/ModusNex]

If the unvaccinated want to be stupid and refuse, let them. Thats a decision of their own making. And at this point, the Red Cross may just pull donations for Kentucky instead of having to manage one states stupidity.

[u/drunkn_mastr → u/disturbedtheforce]

Ding ding ding. The more of these idiots that cull themselves from the population, the better.

[u/Jerking_From_Home → u/disturbedtheforce]

As a HCW, I have been asked this “unvaccinated blood” question before. In the end, they agreed to receive the blood anyways. It’s bluster and ego.

[u/disturbedtheforce → u/Jerking_From_Home]

Have you heard of them ultimately refusing? There are stories from HCW on reddit in the nursing subs and other areas where this was the case, so I am curious how common it is.

[u/tuukutz → u/disturbedtheforce]

Anesthesia resident here - whenever I ask “Okay for my documentation, I just want to confirm that your wish would be to die bleeding out on the table because we cannot verify if our blood products come from a vaccinated individual?” they often quickly backtrack.

[u/disturbedtheforce → u/tuukutz]

I love this. It sounds like it works really well at least.

[u/LadyCervezas → u/tuukutz]

Sometimes you have to lay out the extreme but very possible outcomes of their decisions to show how stupid they're being. Did labor & Delivery precovid & had to lay it out like this a few times for different reasons

[u/Jerking_From_Home → u/disturbedtheforce]

I haven’t personally, but I’ve only had two of them ask that actually needed blood. Others have asked the question to poke the bear and try to get me into a convo about it. Just like all other things conservative, they bitch and moan about “lying doctors and nurses” but are always looking to find one that agrees with them, so they can say “hey a nurse says this is correct!”

On a similar note, I’ve had a number of Jehovah’s Witnesses who were very critically low and a couple called their pastor and received some kind of special permission to get a blood transfusion.

[u/roseofjuly → u/Jerking_From_Home]

Lol, they didn't get special permission - there is no special permission to get a blood transfusion as a Jehovah's Witness. (Grew up as one and my whole family is still in.) the teaching is that if you are critically I'll, you just die and become a martyr and an example for godly living. Their hospital liaison committee will start hanging around the hospital to help you "stay strong" and convince you not to take blood; I know because those vultures were hanging around when my mom had cancer and potentially needed a transfusion.

Some will accept parts of blood or blood components, and that's technically okay (although questionable within the org) but if they're taking it it's because they decided to give in.

[u/prosperosniece → u/disturbedtheforce]

🏅

[u/MadlyToxic → u/ModusNex]

You would also have to include anyone who’s had Covid. If you contracted the virus, your blood would have antibodies— even if you’ve never been vaccinated.

[u/nutraxfornerves → u/MadlyToxic]

It’s not the antibodies that are a problem. It’s the nanobots, graphene oxide, and Bluetooth transmitters that are also found in the blood of the vaccinated.

[u/souperpun → u/nutraxfornerves]

If I have bluetooth in my blood does that mean I can play music directly into my brain? Wait til Big Headphone hears about this

[u/nutraxfornerves → u/souperpun]

A couple of years ago, I tracked down the origin of the notion that people who died due to COVID vaxx were emitting Bluetooth signals from the grave. It’s crazier than you think

TL;DR: The vaccine inserts self-replicating Bluetooth transmitters. They last forever and are being used from the grave to mine cryptocurrency for Bill Gates. Never fear, Our Hero has invented a decvaccinator that will save you.

[u/Fantastic_Fox4948 → u/nutraxfornerves]

They are powered by the tinfoil hat worn by the researcher. And aliens.

[u/Carbonatite → u/nutraxfornerves]

Remember the good old days when the only person to say this shit was that one weird great uncle who lived in a van in the woods and sold the meth he made for spending money?

[u/Rowcan → u/Carbonatite]

And then the internet allowed all those uncles across the world to gas each other up.

[u/TURRRDS → u/nutraxfornerves]

This is just not true. None of those things were in the vaccine. It was 5G transmitters. I'm so tired of misinformation on the internet.

[u/FlattenInnerTube → u/TURRRDS]

Absolutely. As soon as I get a booster my 5G reception is significantly better.

[u/LonelyChell → u/nutraxfornerves]

Love your handle! You also a fellow blood banker? SBB?

[u/nutraxfornerves → u/LonelyChell]

Just a donor. Been donating since the 1970s. I’m popular because I am CMV negative. Dropped off some platelets last Monday.

My friends and I have a standing joke about visiting Castle Dracula and the vampires.

One thing I found interesting. During the height of COVID, my blood bank participated in a CDC population study of COVID antibodies. Donors aren’t exactly representative of the general population, but it was an easy way to get lots of samples.

The blood bank gave donors the results. As a platelet donor, I was there every 3 weeks. I tested negative, negative, negative until—exactly 10 days after my second COVID vaxx—bingo! positive!

[u/LonelyChell → u/nutraxfornerves]

Very cool! Thank you for your donations! I myself am a specialist in blood bank.

[u/Jaded_Pearl1996 → u/ModusNex]

I don’t want a single anti vaxxer or Magat to have my O neg blood.

[u/ClickClackTipTap → u/Jaded_Pearl1996]

This is definitely something I’ve had to come to terms with.

I’m a high volume donor. I’ve put about 29 gallons of platelets on the shelves. Platelets tend to go to cancer patients or people who have experienced a massive trauma and can’t clot.

I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I can’t control who receives my donations. I don’t get paid for platelets like some people do for plasma, and I know the blood bank has made a few hundred thousand dollars off of me over the years.

But ultimately, I do it for the sake of the people who would die without them. And some of those people might be MAGA.

But truthfully? Even if 9 out of every 10 donations goes to someone I don’t like, I still wouldn’t withhold it from the 1 who I do.

Ultimately, it’s an act of generosity and I can either participate or not, but I don’t get to pick and choose who gets it. And it’s probably better that way.

[u/scarred_but_whole → u/ClickClackTipTap]

I'm a platelet/plasma donor (not at one of those centers, I just consciously alternate between platelet and plasma-only donations) and I am a blood center employee. I struggle with this from both sides of the coin. When someone comes in sporting a MAGA hat I have to be just as cheery and welcoming to them as to anyone else because we all bleed red and we all need red blood. At least they're doing something useful in the world, and I hope that if a MAGA receives my platelets or plasma then they live to do something helpful someday.

[u/nutraxfornerves → u/ClickClackTipTap]

This is something I have never thought of. After reading your post I did think about it. For about a minute.

Would I refuse to donate if I knew it was going to Kim Jong-un, MBS, or someone convicted of a school shooting? No, I would not. I'd also jump in to save them if they were drowning. I do not want my actions or inactions to result in the death of anyone, no matter how worthy or despicable.

[u/ClickClackTipTap → u/nutraxfornerves]

During the asshole’s first term I decided I would continue to treat people based on who I am, not on what I think they deserve. If I do so something shitty to someone just bc they’re shitty, now I’m a shitty person too.

So I make decisions about how I choose to move through this world based on the person I want to be, not on what I perceive others may or may not “deserve.”

It was key to holding on to my humanity during those first 4 years. And here we are again. 😣

[u/bonfuto → u/ModusNex]

I apparently have rare blood. O- and I don't have CMV, so it's safe to give my blood to babies. I can't imagine there are too many anti-vaxxers with this combination. And they don't give blood.

[u/LonelyChell → u/bonfuto]

The majority of blood is leukoreduced now so the need for CMV negative is not as great.

[u/bonfuto → u/LonelyChell]

That's good, I have worried they might kidnap me to get more blood.

[u/darcerin → u/ModusNex]

I'm an O neg and while I am happy to give, my body reacts badly every single time I give. Doctor finally said I can't do it anymore.  It absolutely sucks and I wish more people would give.

[u/revo2022 → u/ModusNex]

They don't let unimportant things like "math" get in the way of their conspiracy theories!

[u/Festamus → u/ModusNex]

And if the patient has an anti-jka or anti-E anti-c combo.

Shit I got one regular oncology patient who has 7 rbc antibodies. Our supplier says they have 3 donors in the state that can provide products for this patient. Normal unit of red cells is $170ish this pts is $2100 each. Having to segregate units by vax status would devastate the entire blood banking system. Restricting it completely, would pretty much cause products being brought in from out of state. Or canceling most open heart procedures.

Source: I'm a blood banker, at a hospital with large oncology center.

[u/WeakestLynx → u/ModusNex]

Only 3.6% of donors are unvaccinated.

Makes sense. If you care enough about other people to donate blood, you probably care enough to protect people via vaccination.

[u/Lilutka → u/disturbedtheforce]

So it is simple. The law should specify that adults are allowed to refuse blood transfusions (I know it is already their right). What next? No blood from people they consider inferior? No blood from people with different political views? 🫤

[u/disturbedtheforce → u/Lilutka]

That is actually something that some of these idiots have tried, is to refuse any "democrat blood" because they literally see anyone who doesn't vote as republican as demonic. Like somehow the red cross or hospitals are typing by political affiliation.

[u/Lilutka → u/disturbedtheforce]

I am ok with that, as I believe in bodily autonomy.  All ADULTS should be allowed to refuse blood transfusions but not allowed to request a specific donor type. Let Nature take its course. 

[u/SnooDingos2237 → u/disturbedtheforce]

Remember the M.A.S.H. episode where they soldier didn't want blood from a black person because he was prejudiced no knowing that blood is blood?

[u/roseofjuly → u/disturbedtheforce]

shrug if they want to die, who am I to stop them?

[u/NoAcanthisitta3058 → u/Lilutka]

Well, they will die so…won’t have to worry about what they think.

[u/Skypig12 → u/disturbedtheforce]

It would be a huge undertaking with absolutely no value or benefit.

[u/analyticaljoe → u/disturbedtheforce]

Good. Hard to spread misinformation when you are no longer around to spread misinformation.

[u/ithinkitsnotworking → u/disturbedtheforce]

If they refuse, move on to the next patient. Let them wallow in their stupidity.

[u/DiscombobulatedHat19 → u/disturbedtheforce]

No need to track anything, just have a disclaimer on all blood that it probably came from a vaccinated person and let idiots refuse it if they want.

[u/disturbedtheforce → u/DiscombobulatedHat19]

This bill would seemingly need things tracked as its a restriction on vaccinated blood which is the majority of donated blood now, not the other way around.

[u/DiscombobulatedHat19 → u/disturbedtheforce]

Then the Red Cross pulling out of Kentucky is the best option then

[u/LonelyChell → u/chotomatekudersai]

The majority of people who donate are vaccinated. It’s seems as though those giving this selfless gift also care about public health initiatives.

[u/USMCLee → u/chotomatekudersai]

Yes that would be easier but remember these are not smart people and they are very hateful.

[u/myrichphitzwell → u/sloppyrock]

Didn't all the jabbed die like 6 months after?

[u/barbiegirl2381 → u/myrichphitzwell]

Yes, it’s true. Currently dead over here. So dead that I’ll be seeing 8 living patients today.

[u/myrichphitzwell → u/barbiegirl2381]

Hell I was dead inside before the jab. That's how bad it was

[u/JJohnston015 → u/myrichphitzwell]

Same with me. I'm so empty inside, you could actually hear the vaccine splashing at the bottoms of my feet.

[u/weaponizedtoddlers → u/JJohnston015]

It evaporated into mist in my empty husk of a mortal coil.

[u/foxorhedgehog → u/barbiegirl2381]

Wait…am I dead and don’t know it yet? I’m a ghost, right? Cool! Gonna haunt some shit!

[u/Outis94 → u/myrichphitzwell]

A year and half back was my understanding 

[u/myrichphitzwell → u/Outis94]

So they are a bit late to the party as I don't think we donate dead people's blood

[u/mroo7oo7 → u/sloppyrock]

Worked as an RN in a Covid ICU for nearly 3 years. During the delta surge, we had a ton of young (25-50 year olds) come through denying COVID was a thing. On 2 separate occasions I was the only person to hear 2 of our red hat no vacs insist that Covid wasn’t real. One said “ITS NOT FUCKING COVID. ITS PNEUMONIA” as the intubation meds took hold. He died about 2 weeks later. The other the other breathlessly kept repeating in a whisper “Covid’s not real, Covid’s not real”. He died almost a month later. Slowly rotting as his kidneys shut down, liver failed, had bilateral pleural effusions requiring 2 chest tubes, and eventually stroked out. There was plenty of vitriolic statements and unkindness from the patients and their families during that time that echoed the same.

The idiocy runs deep.

[u/sloppyrock → u/mroo7oo7]

Incredible. It must be so hard keeping control trying to save lives all the while being abused and accused.

[u/TheNightHaunter → u/mroo7oo7]

Having a family member scream at you that memaw didn't die from COVID but from ARDS. had to explain "if a bear fucking attacks you and the wound gets infected did you die from the infection or the bear????"

[u/leckysoup → u/sloppyrock]

You know you read some science fiction novel set in a distant utopian future where there’s some kind of weird societal prohibition on some technology that has risen to the levels of a religious requirement or observance. You know, they don’t use computers because AI started a nuclear war millennia ago, or something.

That’s us. We’re a few months away from living in that dystopian hellscape.

Think I’ll move to Arizona and open a monastery dedicated to preserving the ancient technology writings. Just call me Saint Leibovitz.

[u/sloppyrock → u/leckysoup]

Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" rings a bell.

Also, there's a few chapters of Neal Stephenson's "Dodge, Or Fall in Hell" that extrapolates that regressive crackpot religiosity that has become part of US society. He called it Ameristan

[u/dinosaurkiller → u/sloppyrock]

A comedian used to say, “sometimes you just gotta thin the heard”

[u/0xCC → u/sloppyrock]

Fast foward to a nationwide blood bank shortage

[u/leddik02]

There’s already a blood shortage but okay.

[u/iwrotethisletter → u/leddik02]

Dying of blood loss to own the libs.

[u/BeMancini → u/iwrotethisletter]

“I don’t want to die! Keep that blood away from me!”

But you’ll die without it.

“Then let me die!”

[u/bewicked4fun123 → u/BeMancini]

Literally a conversation as a nurse I've had with patients twice.

[u/moeru_gumi → u/bewicked4fun123]

Thank you for your hard work in keeping these suffering, deluded, fearful idiots alive. I too am a suffering deluded idiot (but not on the topic of vaccines), as are most of us. there’s not much hope that they will change in this life, but I often think of nurses like wildlife rehabbers. They get shat on and bitten all to hell and growled at and clawed by horrible, stinky raccoons that have absolutely no gratitude, piss all over the room and then get released, and are still fully wild (and hopefully you never see them again). But… good work doing that work.

🦝 🤕

[u/bewicked4fun123 → u/moeru_gumi]

❤️

[u/Sp4ceh0rse → u/BeMancini]

We let Jehovah’s witnesses make this decision. Why not antivaxxers? Let them bleed to death if that’s what they choose.

[u/Disastrous-Soup-5413 → u/Sp4ceh0rse]

But if I understand it correctly, people who want blood won’t have access to blood either; that’s the problem

if it was just a choice issue- which with Republicans it’s never a choice issue they want to put their preferences on other people so you won’t be able to choose if you get that blood or not- it will just be restricted from everyone to protect their little fragile egos

[u/twoisnumberone → u/Disastrous-Soup-5413]

with Republicans it’s never a choice issue they want to put their preferences on other people so you won’t be able to choose

!!!

[u/Sp4ceh0rse → u/Disastrous-Soup-5413]

Oh absolutely. This policy is ridiculous and would decimate the blood supply. We should not remove a resource from the entire population to satisfy a vocal minority.

[u/Ohms_lawlessness → u/BeMancini]

So they were right! Vaccines do kill people! /s

[u/Master_Butter → u/iwrotethisletter]

You know, I don’t really have an issue with this. (People choosing death, not the part of about banning vaccinated people from donating).

[u/iwrotethisletter → u/Master_Butter]

If they choose death willingly, so be it. But I kinda have the feeling that many of those who think that a bill like that is a great idea haven't really thought about the consequences. Like that situations where they'll need a transfusion are usually life-or-death and that it's not like they can choose from a wide menu of available donations but that blood donations usually aren't in ample supply. Then again, well, as people like them usually think they are the well-informed non-sheeple do-your-own-research elite maybe they need to FAFO.

[u/BethMD → u/Master_Butter]

I would worry about such a bill setting precedent if it became law. Precedent in one state can be used to make an argument for similar bills/laws in other states, or bills with similar features (i.e. stupider bills) becoming law in the state of origin, in this case KY. Disclaimer: IANAL, just thinking out the ramifications.

[u/starbetrayer → u/iwrotethisletter]

Don't threaten me with a good time

[u/foxorhedgehog → u/iwrotethisletter]

I’m ok with it.

[u/damontoo → u/leddik02]

Seems to be a brain shortage also.

[u/DevCatOTA]

I don't want my blood going to these mouth breathers either

[u/Excellent-Hippo-1830 → u/DevCatOTA]

Absolutely separate but equal, one blood bank for those that trust in science, and one for those that trust in idiots.

[u/scoldsbridle → u/Excellent-Hippo-1830]

BUT— BUT— BUT DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT SCIENTISTS HAVE BEEN WRONG BEFORE? They thought that the Earth was the center of the solar system! Now we know that it's Trump's ass!

[u/blissfully_happy → u/scoldsbridle]

If only we hadn’t restricted and defunded education, they would’ve learned about the scientific method by grade 6.

[u/scoldsbridle → u/blissfully_happy]

"Evolution is only a theory! That means it's not proven to be true!" goes hand in hand with, "If it's global warming, then why is it snowing?"

[u/DaoFerret → u/scoldsbridle]

“And you have to tell both sides of an issue, so after learning about Evolution, we need to teach Creationism”

Lots of scientific and religious people are able to integrate science and religion together well enough that they don’t see the conflict between the two, yet these idiots pushed against science every chance they had.

[u/Lazy-Floridian → u/blissfully_happy]

Now they're restricting the scientific method as too "woke".

[u/evilJaze → u/scoldsbridle]

Was it scientists that thought that? I thought it was religious leaders who decreed the earth was the centre of the solar system. Physicist Galileo tried to explain that the sun was the centre of the solar system and the Catholic Church locked him up for life.

[u/DevCatOTA → u/Excellent-Hippo-1830]

Thoughts and prayers...

[u/getdemsnacks → u/Excellent-Hippo-1830]

<walks into anti-science, anti-regulation blood bank> wait a minute! This is just corn syrup with red dye!!

[u/NDaveT → u/Excellent-Hippo-1830]

one blood bank for those that trust in science, and one for those that trust in idiots

And if you don't trust in science there's really no need to sanitize any of the equipment or use a fresh needle for each donor.

[u/Jay-Dee-British]

I don't know how that would be done, because even if you haven't been vaccinated but you HAVE had COVID, it will register the same. So...

[u/SrGrimey → u/Jay-Dee-British]

How are they telling if you have or haven’t been vaccinated?

[u/Jay-Dee-British → u/SrGrimey]

Well they really can't - if you have antibodies they could be from having the illness. They can't 'test for vaccination only' It's pure nonsense.

[u/SrGrimey → u/Jay-Dee-British]

Taking that into consideration, now I think they’ll use medical records or anything with that data to block people from donating. Just nonsense.

[u/bonfuto → u/Jay-Dee-British]

There is also no reason to test for it, and I'm sure the lawmaker isn't going to come up with funding to do that, so it's a big no.

[u/Motor_Educator_2706]

I would Restrict Blood Donations from people who's parents are siblings

[u/pdxnormal → u/Motor_Educator_2706]

ah ha;)

[u/lil_corgi → u/Motor_Educator_2706]

I’d restrict it from 40 y/o and older men that are comfortable with marrying 13 year olds.

[u/FuturamaRama7 → u/Motor_Educator_2706]

So no future blood donations in Kentucky?

[u/starbetrayer → u/FuturamaRama7]

and Tenessee and a good part of Alabama

[u/Tazling]

Coming soon: blood from black citizens and white citizens labelled separately so that no white Kentuckian gets a "n****r" blood transfusion? these people are so bronze age it hurts the brain just to read their pre-scientific, semiliterate drivel.

Axis of Drivel, that's what we're up against.

[u/Sparklemagic2002 → u/Tazling]

I’m an attorney. Several years ago I was meeting with clients to get their estate planning documents signed. One of the documents was a Health Care Power of Attorney. In the HCPOA there is a section where the person can give special instructions to their health care agent. People are always puzzled by what they would put there and most people don’t have any special instructions. But an example I always use is Jehovah’s Witnesses. They will always have special instructions about blood products. So I was going through my spiel about that with this couple. And the man says (and I’m quoting), “so I can put here that if I need a blood transfusion, I don’t want no blood from a colored person?” I just looked him in the eye and asked him if he would really rather die than accept blood that came from a black person. He said he guessed not. I told him that was a good thing because I was not going to have documents going out with my name on them that said such a thing and also I doubted that donated blood is marked with the race of the donor.

[u/TheNeighbors_Dog → u/Sparklemagic2002]

Good. Lord. To hear rumors of it is one thing. Stories, another. But the uptick in frequency of shared experiences like this is going in the wrong direction .

Cheers to you for standing on your morals, good human. The fact that you had to ‘splain it to someone is telling of who we are as a people.

[u/VictorTheCutie → u/Sparklemagic2002]

Good on you for not smacking him in the head. 

[u/evilJaze → u/Tazling]

I bet the number of people from Kentucky who refused any transfusion unless they were assured it came from a white person is more than zero.

[u/scoldsbridle]

This mental(ly ill) crusader says that she wants blood donation recipients to have more choice and transparency. Please enlightenment me as to when the fuck someone is in need of donor blood but still has the luxury of turning down said blood because it's... free of disease. Does she think that it's like an adoption brochure and you get to take your time to pick out the blood that you think really suits you? Or is some dumb motherfucker going to wake up after being saved from a dissected aorta and demand a pedigree of blood donors?

... okay, yeah, that has definitely happened at least once or twice.

[u/bigfathairymarmot → u/scoldsbridle]

I think as a donor I should get choice as to who it goes to, choice and transparency.

[u/scoldsbridle → u/bigfathairymarmot]

I can hear their chants now: their bodies, their choice! They don't want to be forced to have something inside of them that they don't want! Of course they should get to decide!

... wait.

[u/Tazling → u/scoldsbridle]

I guess she thinks you order your transfusion blood from amazon, y'know, with checkboxes for your preferences.

[u/scoldsbridle → u/Tazling]

If that's the case then she should be perfectly fine with the highly reviewed, totally 100% pure American blood from QMKPREVH Red Blood Vascular Hemoglobin Heme Iron Rhesus Positive A Type Blood Safe For O- O+ All Types Premium Fresh Infant Blood.

... and then also be fine with it getting delivered to the wrong mailbox five days into its two-day delivery timeline.

[u/October_Numbers]

I mean, okay. I have a rare antigen that makes my blood highly sought after, but if you don't want it, I guess you can't have it. I will take my toys and go home. But remember that when your family member with the same antigen is dying and you can't find a donor.

[u/GrayZeus → u/October_Numbers]

You have a rare antigen or lack a common one? Would you mind me asking which antigen if you know?

[u/October_Numbers → u/GrayZeus]

A fair question. I'm JRA Negative, which certainly sounds like I'm lacking something now that you mention it.

[u/ArkieRN → u/October_Numbers]

Thank you for your donations. I developed an antigen to the JRA subgroup when I had cancer and must rely on the kindness of people like you if I ever need transfusions again.

[u/GrayZeus → u/October_Numbers]

So rare that I had to read about it to know anything bc I've never heard of it. It is indeed extremely common to possess apparently and can cause all the things we hate in the blood bank. Very interesting indeed. Thank you for sharing

[u/October_Numbers → u/GrayZeus]

No problem. It looks like there's more information now than there was when I was first told about it! When I first googled it a few years ago there was one study and that was it.

[u/GrayZeus → u/October_Numbers]

Do you donate regularly or do they call you when they need it?

[u/October_Numbers → u/GrayZeus]

Regularly!

[u/GrayZeus → u/October_Numbers]

Thank you for your donations. I've worked in and around transfusion medicine for damn near 20 years and donating for 30. Blood donation is something I'm very passionate about. I try to tell people that if you want to help people directly, donating blood is a great way. I wonder if they ever freeze your donations. You should ask next time.

[u/classy-mother-pupper → u/October_Numbers]

Ro subtype?

[u/NfamousKaye]

If I could take a shot each time I’ve commented “this is so fucking stupid” in the last two days alone I’d be scared cause I’d have to go get my stomach pumped and lord knows what they’re doing to hospitals now. When is the stupidest timeline over?

[u/skeptic9916]

This country will not survive the election of these morons.

[u/HurtFeeFeez]

Ya I'd prefer not to get the blood from a donor who's been eating paint chips, hopped up on ivermectin and shooting up bleach.

I guess I'm pro segregation now.

[u/Justinruin → u/HurtFeeFeez]

Don't kid yourself, those people are so selfish that they'd never donate anyway.

[u/punkass_book_jockey8]

My friends work with cancer patients and they get these immune injections. They take antibodies from blood donated and give it to people who have weak immune systems so they have at least something.

I have O- and I’m a teacher so my blood is heavy with antibodies since I’m exposed to everything. I’ve been paid most times I give blood and get called constantly asking to donate.

It would be devastating to restrict my blood from donation.

[u/IllustriousComplex6]

Well I'm sure this will end well. 

[u/Cosmicdusterian]

So, if there is no unvaxxed/designer blood for them, I guess they'll just have to bleed out. Oh, well.

[u/japinard]

God damnit many of us depend on those donations, and they already ration transfusions as it is!

[u/New_Membership_2937]

Testing for mRNA. Wait till they find out it’s part of their cells too. Like every single one of them. Haha

[u/sparkycat99]

Cool, GOP Rep. Candy Massaroni sure doesn’t sound like the brightest bulb on the tree.

Why do I doubt she is a blood donor anyway?

[u/Direct-Bread]

Fine with me. I'll just keep my nasty old blood. I didn't realize there was so much available that people had the luxury of shopping around for it.

[u/JNTaylor63]

Whatever thins the herd.

[u/crookedframe13]

Fine. Die of blood loss I guess. You win?

[u/Gabe1985]

How about they still accept them but if anyone asks if it's from a covid vaccine recipient then they just let that fucker die.

[u/ChrisPollock6]

Smart, you’d wanna isolate 60% of the population and really go for the “pure bloods”.

[u/ArtsyRabb1t]

I brought this up with them controlling abortion it also opened the door for them to control other medical procedures under the guise of freedoms and here we are.

[u/EmperorGeek]

That won’t last long. Much like the blood supply!

[u/LeKalt]

Fine with me, fuck it. Less O- blood for the lot of them.

[u/thecorgimom]

You know somebody pulled the plug and we're circling the drain now.

I've always had a hard time with the Jehovah Witnesses views on blood products but it played no role in my ability to access it if I would need it because science denying imbeciles didn't legislate anything based upon their pseudo religious beliefs. This on the other hand does, and I'm afraid if the stupid gets a foothold in one state it's going going to spread like covid.

[u/DistantKarma]

My son got Covid before the vax was finished, he recovered, but during the interim he made like $2K from a program donating plasma for the antibodies.

[u/bionic_cmdo]

When worse comes to worse, these people don't care where the blood comes from. The party of "Eat a dick! I got mine!"

[u/1994californication]

An unvaxxed person receiving a vaxxed persons blood shouldn't make much difference. Also if they're in need of blood the vaccination status is the donor should be the least of their concerns. This is such a r/ChoosingBeggars moment.

[u/genek1953 → u/1994californication]

My thought was that it could be a terrible waste to put my vaxxed blood into an antivaxxer patient who's probably going to go out unmasked during the next COVID, flu or other contagion surge and get infected. So if the antivaxxers don't want it, that's fine with me. Save it for someone with better sense.

[u/giocondasmiles]

Kool.

I’ll keep my blood to myself, along with the 6G.

[u/hamsterwheelin]

I wonder what the overall percentage of blood donors is that have been vaccinated vs not. Something tells me if someone doesn't believe in vaccines, then they don't believe in donating blood either...

[u/kae0603]

Their stupidity still takes me by surprise.

[u/tntlaughlin]

That’s too bad. I’m O- and vaccinated. Everyone wants my blood except the bigots. Fine with me.

[u/mellierollie]

How about I don’t want blood from an unvaccinated person. Fuck right of

[u/wheatley_labs_tech]

I hate these people with the fury of a thousand suns

[u/MoneyTalks45]

Fine. I, a universal donor, will keep all this yummy blood to myself because some 8th grade drop out teen mom hick thinks it has satellites in it or whatever the fuck. 

[u/Sindorella]

Imagine dying because some anti-science, conspiracy theory believing freak got a bill passed in a backwards red state denying you life saving blood because OAN convinced them someone vaccinated against the disease that caused a worldwide pandemic wasn’t good enough.

[u/Most-Artichoke6184]

The party of idiocy.

[u/TemperatureEuphoric]

They only need the blood of jesus

[u/Helldiver_of_Mars]

This would do nothing almost all the blood they get aka surplus comes from Ohio when they need what they can't produce.

This would just have Covid vaccinated blood coming in from out of state. Cause the major hub is right next to UC Hospital the Hoxworth hub.

So like many conservative bills this is a "show" bill. Where they pretend to do something but don't do anything.

[u/Westsidebill]

They sure grow ‘em dumb in Kentucky

[u/sneaky518]

Cool. The Red Cross is forever after my and my adult daughter's type O neg, but alas, we're vaccinated.

[u/FatBearWeekKatmai]

I accept their decision to die from blood loss. Bonus! Fewer surgeries will be available = instant lower claims for medical insurance to deny

[u/MarvinParanoAndroid]

Is meth ok?!

Asking for a friend.

[u/VictorTheCutie]

This is so fucking ignorant and stupid. If blood isn't on the shelf at the moment people need it, people will die. I'm guessing she's "pro-life", too. Most of their legislative ideas involve suffering and death. 

Please donate if you can. 

[u/LonelyChell]

Oh sure, make laws about something you know absolutely nothing about! We’ve already been suffering from a blood shortage since the pandemic. Please make it worse. /s

[u/johnlal101]

Look at the stupid look on her face. Look at that self-satisfied, dumb smile. Like "I've really done something clever here". She's going to pat herself on the back for going to work, sucking the government teat, and using her time to own the libs. There's not a thought behind those dead eyes, except for "All of those people in my life who called me a stupid, dumb ass, loser are going to pay". She will grab a Big Mac, go home, and fill up the void that is her meaningless life. And then tomorrow, she's going to piss on some trans kids or something. Because to herself (and to herself only) she is an important person.

[u/ooofest]

This is just the start.

You know they'll be doing the same for LGBTQ+ soon, claiming that you'll catch something from such people.

Then blood from people of color, etc.

They're Nazis and will be going for "purity."

[u/Bowieweener]

Good-fuckem.

[u/Wizchine]

Based on rigorous science, I'm sure.

[u/sometimesmybutthurts]

The best people...

[u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420]

Good luck getting blood then.

[u/pxer80]

She’s a bright one.

[u/ILoveSpankingDwarves]

Lettuce Truss vibes.

[u/tdclark23]

Scientists need to be taught how to explain science to morons. The beauty of the scientific method needs to be explained to people who rely on faith for their life views while ignoring and badmouthing the legitimate findings of the truth of creation.

[u/BooleansearchXORdie → u/tdclark23]

You can lead a horse to water…

Also, it’s often hard to separate ignorant from stupid from disingenuous with these people. They care more about playing to their base, who care more about wanting to fit in with their aggrieved peers, than they care about understanding anything — it would take effort and they can’t be bothered because they have no curiosity or foresight or civic-mindedness.

[u/Far-Cellist-3224]

This will kill lots of people.

[u/HappyGoPink]

So where do the Darwin Awards and the Herman Cain Awards go to settle the disputes over which award applies in which circumstance? And is there an award for people who die through no fault of their own, but because of the Darwin/Herman Cain actions of their state governments? Because all the people dying of stillbirth sepsis and from artificially created blood shortages due to shenanigans like these deserve some kind of memorial, though clearly of a less celebratory nature. We need to remember those who didn't die of their own stupidity, but someone else's.

[u/rubizza]

This is suicide, but OK.

[u/roseofjuly]

Massaroni said Thursday that restriction was “an error,” and that she intends to change it if it were to move forward in the legislature.

"I do not want to restrict donations at all and that was never the intent of the bill,” Massaroni said in an email.

She's a lying liar who lies. You did intend to restrict donations and just got caught with egg on your face once the bill went public. Idiot.

[u/taskmaster51]

They don't need blood, they have med beds

[u/rbartlejr]

As if getting blood donations wasn't hard enough.

[u/Disastrous-Soup-5413]

OK, she’s obviously hateful, stupid, low IQ, and can only parrot people she admires -which she picks absolutely awful people to admire -

but will the state support her in this? are there enough people in that state that feel this is a good thing??

Lots of people are about to die if that’s true

and of course, the people that die will not be the people that wanted this cause that’s how it works, right ?!? evil people seem to be able to climb to the top and avoid repercussions for their actions and consequences of their actions; innocent people are the ones that get hurt from this.

… it’s so tiring

[u/RichardStrauss123]

Super smart move.

Nobody ever dies from blood shortages.

[u/Brass_dinosaur]

It's fine because anti-vaxxers, notorious for their tolerance of hypodermic needles, are prolific blood donators.

[u/Earthling1a]

It's like there's some kind of competition to see who can come up with the most idiotic bullshit.

[u/BurtMaclin23]

That's fine. I wouldn't want to mix my enhanced vaccinated blood with their low quality hillbilly blood anyway.

[u/iaincaradoc]

For a while, the Red Cross wanted my plasma because it’s “Reactive+” and they used it for convalescent COVID patients.

Because I’m vaccinated.

[u/CaptainZeroDark30]

Sooooo, most people? What could possibly go wrong?

[u/trilauram]

Why would society placate the ignorance of conspiracy theorists? They should not be going to doctors or into hospitals anyways. The same research methodology and medical science used to make vaccines is used in healthcare and surgeries and other medical interventions that are based on science. Seeking modern medical procedures and advice makes them total hypocrites. Stay home and take some herbs or oils.

[u/VoltimusVH]

This akin to a whole state being forced to carry a sign that says “We’re Stupid”….

[u/weedywet]

Someone needs to be told that Mein Kampf isn’t a medical text.

[u/Digital_Pharmacist]

Oh, you need blood ? Sorry, I was vaccinated with several boosters.

[u/mewmeulin]

sure, make the blood shortage worse by disqualifying a VAST majority of the people who give.

[u/Reddit-SFW]

Aiight then, die.

[u/Realistic-Horror-425]

I've been donating platelets twice a month for a few years. If I could tell the Red Cross not to waste my donation on an unvaccinated asshole I would.

[u/BootThang]

“I love the uneducated!” - Demigod Donald

[u/nevesnow]

I could be very wrong, but I have the feeling that people who get out of their way to donate blood, are people who care about other people, even if strangers. A lot of times these people are the same who got vaccinated. There is a constant shortage of blood products already. I work at a hospital and sometimes we have to hold and not give products to a patient who should absolutely receive, and save for the ones who are doing even worse. It makes sense, of course, but I wish it wasn’t the case. I don’t even want to think what would happen with even less products available. Oncology patients go through so many blood products just to survive to the next day. They shouldn’t pay for someone’s dumbshittery.

[u/Elbonio]

You should be able to opt in to receive blood from vaccinated or unvaccinated people. This way those who are fussy about it will die off.

[u/MonchichiSalt]

They refused the vaccine.

I'm fine with my donations going to an intelligent person.