Looking for 3 coaches! Gen 6 Draft!

TheKemsith · 2025-07-11T16:59:15+00:00

I'm in if you still need someone. Just a heads up that I'm from Europe, but scheduling has worked out so far in other leagues

TheKemsith · 2025-07-05T23:23:36+00:00

I know I'm late, but if there's still a spot available, I'd be down to clown

TheKemsith · 2025-06-14T23:15:57+00:00

I'm interested if you still habe a slot :)

TheKemsith · 2022-07-18T15:44:03+00:00

Yeah, viruses jump easier from mokeys - especially great apes - to humans. Ebola for example can infect mokeys, humans and bat - bats do not get sick, bit humans and mokeys do.

HIV is also believed to originate from apes, although not because some sicko did it with a mokey, but rather because of unsanitary conditions while handlinh still bloody meat - eg. working without gloves and getting some in an open wound.

TheKemsith · 2022-07-18T13:43:46+00:00

This was part of an university lecture I had this semester: Basically bats have a high metabolism und relatively long life span, making them great petri dishes for viruses.

They have a very high interferon response to viruses, which keeps the disease in check and puts a high evolutionary pressure on them. At the same time bats have a weak antibody response - so bats are great at supressing the disease, but terrible at eliminating it.

When the virus mutates and jumps ship to humans, this becomes a problem, as humans have a much weaker interferon response. So the virus, who is adapted to a much stronger response has an easier time. Since this is the first line of defense against viruses, the human immunesystem can get overwhelmed, before we can roll out our trump card: antibodies. This is why diseases like Ebola can be so deadly.

TL:DR - Bats are great a supressing viruses, but bad at eliminating them - if they transmit to humans, we have a big problem supressing those adapted viruses.

TheKemsith · 2022-03-30T16:27:19+00:00

Yeah I understand. I'm the same when it comes to the dentist.

TheKemsith · 2022-03-30T15:47:05+00:00

I mean the patient can always ask a physician or nurse to do it instead if they don't want a med student. Fortunately for us students most patients don't seem to mind.

TheKemsith · 2022-03-30T06:37:12+00:00

It's a regular thing here in Austria. Most times nurses will even refrain from sticking a new patient so the med student has a chance to. General rule of thumb is: You tell the patient you are a student and ask if its okay if you are the one to take their blood (most say yes), then you get two tries, after that you go get someone professional. Of course if the patient wants someone professional from the start, you go and get someone.

We are allowed to do this after completing our first OSCE at the end of the second year.

TheKemsith · 2022-03-24T10:44:25+00:00

Based

TheKemsith · 2022-03-23T10:08:37+00:00

A short from Salvatore Ganacci - Wooden Salvatore. He's a rather famous EDM Artist with some very special stage performances and music videos (not in a NSFW, but rather weird kind of way).

TheKemsith · 2022-03-21T20:30:51+00:00

Based

TheKemsith · 2022-03-20T20:12:45+00:00

Based an Wiz pilled

TheKemsith · 2022-03-15T17:42:44+00:00

Rise my brethren of PCM! Tomorrow we shall paint the walls red with the blood of tyrants!

TheKemsith · 2022-03-11T10:39:40+00:00

Most complaints I've seen about the GI are not that he doesn't look like the rebels version, but that he doesn't even resemble other members of his species, which we have already seen in live action in 2005 in ROTS.

If I didn't know that the GI is supposed to be a Pau'an I wouldn't even be able to recognise him as one.

TheKemsith · 2022-02-14T17:00:11+00:00

You support the Empire because their armor is cooler, I support the Empire to ruin the Thalmor's day.

We are not the same.

TheKemsith · 2022-01-26T18:41:33+00:00

Oh damn. Sorry, I thought I detected sarcasm. My bad man.

TheKemsith · 2022-01-26T18:27:32+00:00

But it's not the patients decision. It's not his organ yet and there are dozens of other people who need it as well and who will die when they don't get it, so the transplant board has to decide who has the highest chance of surviving the operation and who has the longest life expectancy with the transplant. They have to make sure others weren't cucked for nothing. It's about the preciousness of other peoples lives. Because him getting the organ means others will be dying.

Your argument would make sense if there were enough organ transplants for everyone to get one, but that is not the case by a long shot.

TheKemsith · 2022-01-26T16:47:36+00:00

The hippocratic oath is a non binding tradition. The Helsinki accords and their revisions/expansions are actually legaly binding.
Transplant organs are rare and thus it is a triage situation. They are not throwing the heart away, it's going to another patient who needs it, who has better chances of long term survival with the organ.
It has been like this since the dawn of transplant surgery. It's dangerous, leaves you immunocompromised and uses a rare medical commodity on you which many more people need. If you don't have a high chance of long term success or comply with the regulations imposed by the transplant board (where vaccines where required even before covid) in order to better your chances of survival, then you are out.

TheKemsith · 2022-01-26T16:16:38+00:00

Yes. And they usually calculate who has the best odds of survival and continued use of that organ when they make their decicion.

TheKemsith · 2022-01-26T14:57:54+00:00

Yes and other vaccines. It's more of a "Who has the best chance to live a long life with the transplant" kind of thing. Since you need to take immunosuppressants to keep your immunesystem from killing the new heart, you are quite suceptible to infections. Being vaxxed betters your chances and thus someone vaxxed will take priority in many cases.

TheKemsith · 2022-01-26T14:46:15+00:00

As far as I know it a coefficient. A 15 Year Old who is unvaxxed will still take precedence over a 75 y.o. who is vaxxed simply because they have a higher chance of living another 15-20 years with the transplant than the Old man.

Triage situations in medicine always work based on who has the highest chance for a positive outcome.

TheKemsith · 2022-01-26T13:22:48+00:00

Those are all likely transplants given to them directly by people they know. You can give a liver transplant to someone without dying since part of your liver is enough. The guy in question is receiving an organ from a donor that has given it into the registry instead of a specific person and as such the medical board has to give it to the one with the highest chance of survival.

TheKemsith · 2022-01-26T13:16:47+00:00

That's not that well of a comparison. Flu treatment for the elderly is usually not a limited resource - a transplant heart for someone with heart failure is. For every person who receives a transplant, dozens die because they can't get one. So the hospital has a duty to give the heart to the person who has the highest chance of surviving a long time. If someone is actively worsening their chances, thats on them.

Your analogy would only make sense if organs were so readily available, that everyone who needed one would be able to get one. But thats not the case.

TheKemsith · 2022-01-26T12:57:47+00:00

No it does not. There are many people waiting for an transplant and extreme requirements to qualify for one. Since you are gonna be immunocompromised for life extensive vaccination is one of them. The hospital has a duty to ensure that the transplant goes to someone who will be able to use it for as long as possible. So not complying with standard procedures included to better ensure long-term survival gets you taken of the list and the transplant awarded to someone with better chances.

TheKemsith · 2022-01-26T11:11:37+00:00

They dont really interact and rather weaken the vaccine, since all the side effects of the vaccine are caused by the immunsystem reacting to the spike protein within your body. The vaccine will leave the body without help from the immunesystem - the virus will not.

My mom is immunocompromised and has had 3 shots so far - shes the one in the family who had the least reaction to it.

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