Red Cross won't use vaxxed blood for convalescent plasma - no problem using unvaxxed.
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It's you who is ignorant. And arrogant. Unjustifiably so, since most of the time you're wrong in your assertions.
The red cross's response is vague. It sounds like an excuse to fob the curious off. Which seems to work for you.
"complex red cross system updates"
The whole exchange sounds like PR damage control. The original tweeter did not ping or mention the red cross at all. The red-cross sought out her tweet to reply to it.
The Red Cross are not using vaxxed blood for plasma, though the FDA has told them they can. They ARE using unvaxxed blood for plasma, however. No problems there. They are choosing to use only unvaxxed blood for plasma for reasons they are not clearly explaining.
What exactly are these "complex red cross system updates"? Surely it's not an insurmountable task? What's the difference? Would they have to keep track of exactly which vaccines the donor has gotten, how many shots, when? Why on earth would they have to do that? why is it so complicated to use vaccinated blood to make convalescent plasma? None of that is explained by the red cross' response.
My speculations:
Maybe it's just a case of "why bother with all that extra work when you have perfectly good UNVAXXED blood to work with, no complications". Perfectly good unvaxxed blood?! Shocker!
Or maybe they just don't want to risk an unknown. Perhaps they are aware that the FDA has been corrupted by conflict of interest, and that their advice is not reliant on solid data nor made in a patients best interest, but in their own best interest.
OK, The Red Cross are not using vaxxed blood for plasma to give to immunocompromised people with Covid-19. They don't mention if they are using it for other people, with normal immune systems, or not. Why would they? Are there even be people like that who need such treatment? Seems like a funny thing to get hung up on. Weak argument.
The FDA, EMA, WHO all say it's fine to give immunocompromised people these vaccines, and therefore blood plasma products created with vaccinated blood should be fine too, by their standards. In fact, SAGE in the UK even say immunocompromised people should be given an extra dose of the vaccine compared to people with normal immune systems.
Yet the American Red-Cross is only giving these people plasma products created with unvaxxed blood, by their own admission, and without a clear explanation as to why. That's interesting and that's why I made the post.
Keep grasping at straws dumbass