I occasionally have people balk at having to show ID to donate blood. More often than not,

[brewens]

it's older people and frequently in rural areas. In a small town were they know the yokel sheriff or cops, many times these people just never even bother to carry their drivers license. Being white, middle class or better, they know they won't get pulled over or will get off with a warning if they don't have their license

Many times they get pretty pissy with me when I tell them it's an FDA regulation. One old farmer did that today. From now on I'm going to test them. I'll kind of just jokingly say, "yeah, I know. It's silly. Who's going to sneak around trying to donate blood under an assumed name or anything like that. It's just like the voter ID thing."

Wanna bet I get a reaction doing that? I can see the wide eyes and heads exploding! "But but but....that ain't the same! They's darkies votin' and they vote Demcrat!" Of course they won't actually say that but it will be some kind of similar code.

[snooper2]

1. who drives the donate bus to B- fucking E?

I never saw one growing up in the backwoods of the shithole called Missery,

But every three months they are in our parking lot at work in East Plano-

[brewens]

2. We do pretty well in the small towns but we do not have any large cities in our region.

I suppose in some areas, blood centers make such a haul in the big cities, they don't need to go out there.

I masterminded the idea of going out to our local boy scout camp in the summer. It's not a big drive but we do okay. The kids going for Eagle Scout use it as a civic project they need. They organize it and bring in the donors. I just love taking the bus out there. They feed us and everything!

[dballance]

3. That is so ignorant.

Having a person's ID on file is very practical. If their blood is found to contain some pathogen when it is tested they need to made aware of that. It could help save their life.

I've donated blood all my life. I would be glad to be notified that my batch of blood might contain a pathogen I could get treated for for my safety.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. That's not why the ID is mandated.

It's not to help the donor. It's to screen them out before drawing blood the next time they show up to volunteer.

[brewens]

5. The ID is just to verify they are who they say they are. They give us contact information as

well of course. In seven years I have never even been suspicious that someone was trying to donate under an assumed name or anything like that. Like voter fraud, it's not anything 99.999 percent of us would even consider doing.

Maybe that deters someone with a mental issue and pathogen from trying to do some harm? I suppose it could happen.