Big Balls attacked in DC after helping a woman
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Grok, in the comments:
Youths have done it again, damn it! And, yeah, he got a concussion. Definitely more than a light beating.
And fifteen year olds, absolutely insane. Where were their da...oh.
Seriously, though. It's insane that "youths" feel so emboldened to go around attacking women, and anyone who tries to stop them. In a sane society this shit wouldn't be tolerated.
This is going to get to the point that;
A) Someone is simply going to shoot these groups eventually,
And;
B) When enough of those shootings keep happening because they are needed the public support for them will do nothing but grow, because it will start with some condemning it while others keep quiet until it gets too much to stay quiet about.
It's happened before and, yes, it will happen again.
See Bernhard Goetz. Even back then, one of his "victims" won the ghetto lottery, though.
A concussion can definitely be involved with major head trauma , but it's a terrible diagnostic marker.
There's no objective diagnostic test to label something a "concussion". IE. Concussions don't show up on neuroimaging.
A "concussion" is literally any sort of head trauma, no matter how minor, where the subject reports ANY symptoms afterwards (headache, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, light sensitivity, irritability, etc).
Concussions are real but their diagnosis is a complete scam because there are no objective tests, nor any targeted treatments. Beyond keeping athletes off fields.
Big if true.
Had not heard that.
There's really no way to know if someone has a concussion at the time of injury.
You can make some educated guesses based on past concussion history, the force of the blow, some of the pathognomonic subjective symptoms the sufferer reports afterwards, etc.
But that's the problem, everything is subjective & self-reported. Really the only way to know if someone suffered a concussion is if they are still experiencing concussion-like symptoms days later. But again, everything is self-reported and the symptoms are subjective & vague - headache, fatigue, nausea, light sensitivity, dizziness, moodiness, etc.
There are some field tests that athletic trainers use to try to diagnose concussions right on the sidelines, but similarly, it's all questionnaires and points systems.
Nothing is done for concussions anyway other than restricting the sufferer from doing anything until they stop reporting symptoms. So there's potential for secondary gain in either direction.
IIRC, it's not that we can't, there's eye tracking measures that they've tested for use. But what's the point?
If you've not seen it watch the Kurt Angle vs Brock Lesnar WWE match from like 20 years ago. Lesnar attempted a Shooting Star Press and landed on his head. He doesn't remember anything of the match from that point because of the concussion he gave himself for failing to rotate enough while doing the backwards flip. He managed 180 degrees when he needed 270.
Personally I thought he'd killed himself the way he landed.