Oh, come on people!

[subplotkudzu]

I had always intended this journal to be primarily gaming related with some (hopefully) amusing life anecdotes, but I feel the need to rant for a moment. This quote is from an Explainer article in yesterday's Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2149359/)

(The centers in Iowa, for example, are able to collect from 12 percent of the population, compared to a national average of 3 percent.)

3%?

3 goddamn percent?!?

This five years after people were banging on the doors of the blood rives insisting it was their moral and religious duty to donate? Speaking as arrogant git who just got his 5 gallon pin, I'm trying to figure out what the problem is here. I know the article I'm quoting from is focusing on the cost factors of blood donation and transfer, but I can't be the only on to find this depressing. Surely we can do better than this.

Comments

[kriz1818.livejournal.com]

Well, you've now reminded *me* that my current schedule would allow me to take a day off to recuperate from the exhaustion that giving blood inflicts on me!

[candorite.livejournal.com]

Well, unfortunately, I haven't been able to donate for YEARS due to medications in the blood stream. However, that may soon change. Hooray!!!!

[evynrude.livejournal.com]

I tried to give blood today. They didn't like my blood. I'm apparently a little anemic. That's a new state in my life.

[corylus-unbound.livejournal.com]

I'm not allowed to give blood but would if I could.