Civic duty

[jethrien]

I've got the day off, so not only have I voted, I've also given blood. Yay for being all dutiful and such!

Comments

ummmm,

[freekofnature.livejournal.com]

Actually donating blood strengthens your body. It stimulates the spleen and liver into generating new blood cells and hemopoiesis (making immature red blood cells stored up, mature into adult red blood cells) and strengthens your response in case of a future injury. Regular blood donors survival rates, in car crashes, are much much higher than those who do not.

Also getting vaccines, any vaccines, strengthens and activates your immune system! Keeping it in shape to ward off a real infection by real bacteria and viruses, instead of the weakened, half dead, and dead ones (viruses aren't "alive" but they can be made "non-infectous" easily) that they use to make vaccines...

Like anything else in or on your body, "Use it, or lose it!"

Re: ummmm,

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Ummm, yeah. Long term. Not an hour later. You've weakened your system for several hours afterwards, at least, which is why they tell you not to do stuff like exercise.

In summary, flu shot and donating blood are good. On the same day is a really, really stupid idea.