| From: | roun <roun@***.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Giving blood in 205X: common or rare? |
| Date: | Tue, 19 May 1998 23:37:50 PDT |
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| Having submitted to the Red Cross and their needles last Thursday for
| the public good (and it didn't hurt a bit!), I was paging through Aztlan
| and met the Blood Magic section, which got me thinking.
|
| In our modern world, giving blood is no big deal; as long as there's no
| risk of infection or you're not a haemophiliac, it's not a danger. In
| Shadowrun, though, a blood sample can be used for ritual sendings, blood
| magic, and lots of other creative nastiness. Given this, would people
| would actually give blood (whether to a corporate or public
| health-provider)? What would it say about those people? What sort of
| psychological/sociological issues would this produce - e.g., would it
| become a litmus test, like abortion/affirmative action/gun-control?
|
| <*Not* trying to start controversy on the last three issues, but still
| curious...>
wow, a very good question. do they synthesize all the blood using a better
grade plasma than we can produce now??? i think given how many things can
be grown (limbs and all that crap) that hospitals would just produce blood
in percentages according to the percentage of different blood types in the
nation or corp they serve. just another charge to add on to your hospital
bill!!! (and they love to do that).
so saying that, i do not think, IMHO, that people would be needed to give
blood, except to replenish supplies of blood that are used to grow/produce
blood/plasma through cloning/vat growth techniques. think, in shadowtech
they talk about it in the comments, where KAM from Universal Omnitech says
(paraphrased) that they produce a whole body just for an arm and recycle
the rest, but probably steal the blood first (and other parts) as well.
whew, don't usually spout so much shit in one go!
roun aka dave
roun@***.net
