The feeling is that if you give blood, and then a few weeks later someone in the community needs blood, you won’t be able to donate.
That’s odd. The only time I could possibly see that being a problem is in one of the following two scenarios:
1. All potential donors give blood at the same time (which is unlikely).
2. If the potential donor has a particularly rare blood type.
But for someone like me who has “gutter blood,” there are always plenty of other people with my blood type available for donating.
In addition, there are times (especially WRT emergencies) when the doctors won’t have time to wait for donors — they need to have the blood on hand right away.
The Wolf