Although the above comment is not wrong about the high speed of blood this is only the case close to the heart.
In smaller blood vessels, and especially in veins, blood flows much slower, as low as a couple of centimeters per second in the index finger [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11284002/]
Not that this helps answer the original question by much, but this adds some nuance to the answer
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Although the above comment is not wrong about the high speed of blood this is only the case close to the heart.
In smaller blood vessels, and especially in veins, blood flows much slower, as low as a couple of centimeters per second in the index finger [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11284002/]
Not that this helps answer the original question by much, but this adds some nuance to the answer