I have donated gallons of blood to the Blood Bank.  The numbers of donations and the numbers of sold units don't add up to 1/6th of the supply.  If you look at the scheduled whole blood donations BBA's donor site for the next week in Anchorage Center, Dimond Mall, Fairbanks, and Wasilla, you get 115 donations scheduled next week.  Let's add 10 drop-in donors and 30 donations per day on the bus (M-Sat).  240 + 115 donotions = 355.  I'm not seeing 600 donations per week every week.  The article said BBA had 232 units in quarantine last week.  Question:  If we had a mass casualty event, plane crash, shooting, etc., and the 100 units just got shipped out that day, would there be enough blood locally to handle the demand?  How many people would die waiting for new blood to arrive from Outside?  What do hospitals expect from BBA in terms of emergency backup?  I don't mind if my blood is discarded -- if having it on the shelf means people who would have died live.  BBA -- we count on you.