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Plasma from recovered patients is the best COVID treatment we& #39;ve got right now.

That means we& #39;ll need a lot of it until we have a vaccine- 12-18 months from now.

While we& #39;re in an economic depression.

And one suspects those antibody treatments aren& #39;t being given for free.

Plasma from poor Americans has become one of the US& #39;s #1 exports by annual dollar value. Donors get paid a tiny fraction of the value of their own blood. https://www.mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blood-americas-poor-late-stage-capitalism/263175/">https://www.mintpressnews.com/harvestin...

True donations (giving plasma with no payment) are ok for the initial emergency phase, & the trial-&-error of learning whether plasma antibody treatment works.

But we& #39;re about to buckle in for a long period of high demand for American plasma- in the US & for export.

The people most likely to get COVID in the first place are the working poor who can& #39;t work from home.

If we don& #39;t pay them for their plasma after they survive & recover, that& #39;s literally just bleeding the most vulnerable people & keeping the cash. NO.

We got some folks really worried about people infecting themselves on purpose for the cash

Meanwhile the White House lied about COVID, bungled testing, & is hoarding PPE for private financial gain

leading to an ongoing epidemic with 16K deaths so far.

But hypothetical folks on the street trying to farm their own antibodies are the profiteers you& #39;re worried about??

Profiteering off of COVID is a *very real problem.* And there are a lot bigger fish to fry here than poor randos selling their own plasma.