The issue is donation centers are shitty, workers are untrained, and corporations make a shit ton of money selling our “donations” while people that get it have to pay.
Kind of sours people on donating.
Last time I gave they went thru the vein, gave me a giant “golf ball” hematoma and then the workers “playfully teased me” it was going to slow.
They shut up pretty quickly when I showed them how fucked up my arm was, took almost two weeks for the bruise to go away.
When I stopped donating, I started getting automated phone calls that stared out with a distraught woman screaming:
Help, there’s been an accident!
Fuck these literal vampire corporations. We need a government donation system where 2-3 middlemen don’t make millions and the people who need the blood don’t have to pay for it.