/int/ - International

Yeah, maybe 15 times throughout my life. I used to live close to a donation centre and it was convenient, now I have to wait until once every 6 months there's a donation campaign near me and hope that I am free on that day. I once got blocked for travelling to Japan, so it's not just shitholes.

>>4588 Today I learned Switzerland blocks Japan because of Dengue. Crazy. Japan had a single Dengue outbreak in 80 years, in 2014, with just a handful of people infected. Germany does not block Japan. It's not just shitholes, yes. Parts of Italy and mainland France are pretty much universally blocked by everybody.

No, because I don’t know what they will do with my blood.

>>4622 They use them in hospitals and ambulances to treat people who have lost/are losing blood? During a single complex operation they may need up to 20 liters. A country like Germany needs more than 7.000 liters of donated blood every day. When Bernds dad had his first heart surgery in the 1990s, he had to go to the hospital every couple of weeks to build up a supply of his own blood so they would have to rely less on the reliability of blood donations.

>>4624 You don’t know if that’s really how your blood is used. They could sell it or shit like that without you knowing.

>>4626 They're quite open about selling it. They sell it to pharmaceutical companies because some medicine require blood during production. As unethical as pharmaceutical companies are, providing an ingredient for life-saving medicine is fine for me. Also, it's not like the profits from selling the blood go somewhere bad, in the end it's the Red Cross that gets the money.

>>4630 It’s also a privacy thing. Your blood contains a lot of information about yourself and your lifestyle, I don’t think this information is anyone’s business besides myself.

nope bernd suffered, others should suffer too

I once traveled to a smaller town that's still white to donate blood because I knew it'd be used there. Other than that I refuse to donate anything to the niggers that have destroyed my country and my life.

>>4632 This is an anonymous board, Bernd. You can just admit you're afraid of that little needly. You don't have to make up stupid shit.

once, it was awful because I live in retarded colony nation so-called shithole. Like, I wasn't given the full guidelines of what I needed to do or not do so I looked it up. Obviously I ended up comparing the requirements for people in many nations and it's hilarious how despite the pretense of anti discrimination laws you still get banned if you've ever done illegal drugs or are Turing vollständig or have had tattoos, shit like that; abstain 3 months from smoking, no greasy foods for a week, no salty foods or sex for 3 days, or a year if not married, or 3 years if you've ever done it with hookers, 12 hours of fasting, not even water (insane because I literally have to give a urine sample right before), no fapping 24 hours prior... Meanwhile, in e.g. Spain it's like 6 hours of fasting and no smoking an hour prior. Somehow many USA states are even worse though, so it's not just a thing of disease proliferation or whatever (and besides they're giving the blood to someone who also lives here and is just as exposed to the same diseases anyway). It's clearly about discriminating based on class, race, social status, religion, etc. Hell, they even interrogated me about psych profile and surgeries from decades ago.

>>4687 Some of that is understandable because the stakes are so high. It's "better" to let someone die because there was not enough donor blood than to let a single case of a transmitted disease ruin all trust in the whole system. They cannot test every bag for everything, so the hurdles are there to filter out people who hopefully act responsibly. The one that strikes me as very counterproductive though is the fasting. The body has to make up for the blood loss as soon as possible. In Germany "Did you eat and drink well today?" is a critical question that might keep the doctor from allowing you to donate that day. I've seen mo than one person faint. At our donation locations there's always enough free drinks and food around.

>>4713 It's understandable to have pushback but not to the degree some hospitals/regions do. In my case they literally ask for several blood samples to test out, iirc it's one a week prior to donation and another right before, besides the urine sample. And afterwards they only give you a single 255ml cup of orange-flavored juice and a sandwich. I also checked in a private hospital in the same area and the requirement were indeed much more lax in comparison.>>4713

>>4736 weird, I meant to cite >>4688 or is cross-threading verboten?