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Love it!!!!

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Excellent metaphor, and only humorous because it is true!

I donate blood every 60 days here in the USA, and fight my way thru a 52-page questionnaire about my health - excellent, my diseases - none, my sexual habits -monogamous and boring, and whether I have received any COVID-19 injections. And if so which ones and when. The other choice is “never injected” which I choose. They also inquire about recent exposures to COVID-19 and recent symptoms and my answer has always been never.

Back in 2020 I thought donating convalescent plasma was a worthwhile idea so I volunteered for that and they tested me for antibodies every 60 days during my normal donation of whole blood and I always tested negative.

Without becoming a lab rat in a cage to be poked and prodded by mad scientists I would like to understand how my immune system has protected me these last three years from catching anything, even a cold.

I've paid for antibody testing at a medical laboratory out of my own pocket six times, all negative.

After two years and eight months of documented negative blood serum COVID antibody testing I am ready to continue to donate documented "safe blood" and "clean blood" every 60 days.

THEY already know who I am and where I live. I imagine they are already setting my donation aside.

My blood is already marked tested and "safe and clean" from a documented frequent blood donor so I believe that there is an opportunity in their chain of handling from donor to end user that might facilitate routing "the good stuff" my blood, to their more select favored clients. It's a small club and no one I know is in it but, I do believe it exists. But I will continue donating even though I believe that it is unfair, unethical, and immoral for some to steal what they want from some child that may be in greater need. Just like a Vampire.

Jaime I like your vampire metaphor and will shamelessly steal it and use it as my own.

Seriously though, there is a group out of Switzerland that is attempting to organize a "safe blood" registry, more of a matchmaking service than a blood bank. You post your willingness to donate, your type, and your state/location and jump back. There are currently just over 500 registered "safe blood" donors in Florida for instance, with 20 million residents.

I can say no to any adult, but would not be able to easily turn down a small child's need for "safe blood". But what would one do if one received 100 requests? 1,000?

I stopped my application process in "safe blood" and have been thinking about how to deal with the kind of pleading email with "photos included" of infants and children like the "baby Alex" case.

“Please help us Type O+ you are the only one.” My baby will die if you do not help us.

We can whistle past a graveyard but can we whistle past a graveyard metaphor?

I get email from The Red Cross thanking me for saving 3 lives with every donation, I suppose they stretch the pints donated to meet their needs as current statistics indicate they have only one- or two-days’ supply on hand here in Florida.

"Vampires all the way down" is a humorous expression of the problem of infinite regress. Not as funny as Jaime Jessop's metaphor but appropriate.

Of course, all the previous homily is mostly hypothetical and just a story I heard from a friend, who is currently in hiding in an unnamed location.

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You mean the clot shot is good for something after all?

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There may truth to this - the aging elites are apparently fond of transfusion of young blood because they think it will extend their lives... I doubt they will want the blood from those they have contaminated...

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Dec 21, 2022Liked by Jaime Jessop

What a terrific piece of writing, offering humor in these dark times.

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Dec 21, 2022Liked by Jaime Jessop

Exactly the dark humour conversation I have with my buddy. We figure that whilst we will be targeting the zombies, the vampires will be targeting us.

We are developing a plan......

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