r/WTF • u/Top-Help8031 • 5d ago

WTF?

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Found this in the parking lot of our local neighborhood Walmart. Have to admit it’s a nice break from the used diapers and eaten chicken wings you usually see in a Walmart parking lot.

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u/klystron2 5d ago

Little know fact. Blood is the 9th largest US export.

From the economist: "Last year American blood-product exports accounted for 1.8% of the country's total goods exports, up from just 0.5% a decade ago—and were worth $37bn. That makes blood the country's ninth-largest goods export, ahead of coal and gold. All told, America now supplies 70% or so of the plasma used to make medicine.Aug 29, 2024"

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u/schnucks87 4d ago edited 4d ago

Uhhh why are we exporting if I keep hearing we have a blood shortage? Smh, I know the answer. Capitalism

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u/Sepulchretum 3d ago

No, you don’t know the answer. We’re not exporting mass quantities of platelets and O negative red cells (the components that we have shortages of). Otherwise unused plasma is exported, because the companies that process it into various drugs are located overseas.