From:	DisnyShamn <DisnyShamn@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Giving blood in 205X: common or rare?
Date:	Wed, 20 May 1998 07:46:46 EDT

Said roun:

> 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).

Just a reminder, they wouldn't actually need different kinds of blood, as O
negative (um, right? Been some years since high school bio, you know) is the
universal donor. Just crank out kiloliters of the stuff.

(Oh, other thought; the various races use the same blood ypes, right?
human/dwarf, elf/troll transfusions are copacetic? Not needed for my game,
just curious.)

A tiny bit later, Cobra wrote:

> 1/ It's always less costly when people give their blood than when
> you have to clone it.

Idunno about this. Depends on the techniques; if they can just throw some
marrow in a vat of nutrients and let computers watch over it, it could be like
farming chia-pets. (Example: look at lab-grown insulin vs. "extracted".
granted, they'd pretty much have to kill you to take that out...)

> 2/ I don't think people bother about giving their blood, even in SR.
> Most joe citizens don't know anything about rituals, blood magic
> and other things like this.

I'd disagree here. People would know about the hazards of DNA sample from
trideo, if nothing else (and probably think the threat is even worse, as the
entertainment industry isn't exactly known for toning such things down). I,
for instance, have never had occasion to tour a bioweapons facility or discuss
the topic with a germ manufacturer, but I still know about anthrax.

> 3/ A good plot would be for an institute to use rituals on the
> custommers who gave them some blodd. Perhaps they could

Oh, come on, what honest corp would do something like THAT? ::teeheehee:: ;)

- Sean