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I donate blood every eight weeks or so--that's the minimum the Red Cross allows, and I usually schedule my next appointment while I'm eating my snacky cakes after donating.
I think the pre-screen seems, to a layman, needlessly harsh in a couple ways. There's HIV/AIDS obviously, but they're pretty concerned about CJD, too--enough so that people who lived outside the US are proactively screened out. And the "have you ever touched cock" questions... yeah, that kind of pisses me off.
On the other hand, I've watched those screening questions change over the years, so I know they're not just sitting still about it. Somebody's making a call about the balance of available donors versus the risk they present. And I assume they've got access to better statistics than I do...
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