As a Las Vegas resident, let me tell you how uplifting this is. Every blood donation center had an 8 hour wait in line to donate. As far as appointments go, all the centers are booked until the weekend.
I know this will get down voted but whenever a bad things like this happen a lot of people want to do the right thing and give blood. People who would usually give blood in one month or 3 months will give it at that moment and feel like they did their duty and helped.
However, blood has expiration date, and in a few months there will not be enough blood donations which is a real problem.
On the other side, since so many people are giving blood now, hospitals have more blood than they need, and a lot of that will go to waste. And you cant just tell people "we don't need anymore blood" because they wanted to help and will get offended. You can lose future blood donors that way.
It is better to give blood regularly than in time of crisis.
AlcoholicZombie on October 3rd, 2017 at 03:56 UTC »
I think everyone at that exact moment is looking at their phones.
Gdmdsd on October 3rd, 2017 at 05:50 UTC »
As a Las Vegas resident, let me tell you how uplifting this is. Every blood donation center had an 8 hour wait in line to donate. As far as appointments go, all the centers are booked until the weekend.
ehho on October 3rd, 2017 at 10:08 UTC »
I know this will get down voted but whenever a bad things like this happen a lot of people want to do the right thing and give blood. People who would usually give blood in one month or 3 months will give it at that moment and feel like they did their duty and helped.
However, blood has expiration date, and in a few months there will not be enough blood donations which is a real problem.
On the other side, since so many people are giving blood now, hospitals have more blood than they need, and a lot of that will go to waste. And you cant just tell people "we don't need anymore blood" because they wanted to help and will get offended. You can lose future blood donors that way.
It is better to give blood regularly than in time of crisis.