James Harrison made his 1173rd donation in 2018. It was his last one after donating for 60 years. Every year has 52.1429 weeks. That means James donated every 2.67 weeks, not every week as CNN claimed.
Not important, right?
I happen to be a fan of reality. You don't need to lie to make something already amazing look even more amazing. And most of all: You don't need to desensitize the population into accepting lies.
So there you have it: Reality.
On another note:
In 2007, Harrison was critical of plans to open up Australia's plasma donation to foreign corporations. He believes that opening up the trade will discourage volunteer donations. This opening of trade stemmed from a review of the country's free trade agreement with the United States.
As we all know, most donations are done without pay, but pharma makes a killing off of our blood.
He was for limiting that killing as he knew that people would be less likely to donate for free knowing who gets the financial gain.
Everyone has a real story to tell. Let's not allow others to taint his and leave out the real voice.
i've been wondering about this Rh null blood for a couple years now: i still don't know what any of these individuals' actual ABO blood types are...and i've looked. seems like no one seems to care or thinks it's important/interesting or matters. yeah, i know this so called "golden blood" is only concerned w/ the Rh blood system and is used to make RhoGAM, but i'd still like to know what they are ABO-system-wise. just bumped into some info (i didn't know) claiming type O blood (the O gene) is generally recessive when paired w/ either A or B blood genes. [ link: https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/blood/ABO_system.htm ]...thus, type O's are going away...in roughly the same way as Rh negs (also recessive) unless such people intentionally seek to mate w/in these 2 groups (or of course if no other type mate w/ them & they still reproduce). my mind still believes O blood was 1st for two reasons: the other blood types can use the blood from this group (mostly, while it does not go the other way) and many old human populations still are type O [link: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/21/22/20/…0.jpg ] ... if A & B and probably AB are dominant over O, then w/ continued ABO blood type mixing, the global O blood prevalence rate of between 50-90+ % will/should continue to decline as the % for A/B & AB continue to rise (unless another mutation or more develops/occurs imo)...once again, as long as reproductions rates are similar and other things do not overly impinge.