Motorcycle rallies = organ donation rallies

[crash_davis 23114]

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/organ-donations-transplants-increase-days-largest-motorcycle-rallies?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

The number of organ donations and organ transplants goes up markedly during large motorcycle rallies, according to a newly published analysis led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

The research, which appears Nov. 28 in JAMA Internal Medicine, shows that in the regions where the seven largest motorcycle rallies were held throughout the United States between 2005 and 2021, there were 21 percent more organ donors per day, on average, and 26 percent more transplant recipients per day, on average, during these events, compared with days just before and after the rallies.

“The spikes in organ donations and transplantations that we found in our analysis are disturbing, even if not entirely surprising, because they signal a systemic failure to avoid preventable deaths, which is a tragedy,” said study first author David Cron, HMS clinical fellow in surgery at Mass General. “There is a clear need for better safety protocols around such events.”

 

Organ recipients:

[RDCanecutter 26461]

Here's something for y'all to listen to while you re-read the article.

 

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Donorcycles

[crash_davis 23114]

It's nice of Harvard to validate what most everyone already knows. 

Some entrepreneur type should find a way to monetize and match dudes going to motorcycle rallies to organ transplant waitlist recipients. Maybe the waitlist recipients can  pay for all of the motorcyclists' drinks for the weekend.

[Pods 7586]

1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

It's nice of Harvard to validate what most everyone already knows. 

Some entrepreneur type should find a way to monetize and match dudes going to motorcycle rallies to organ transplant waitlist recipients. Maybe the waitlist recipients can  pay for all of the motorcyclists' drinks for the weekend.

Good news is, your liver transplant went well. 

Bad news is, you're fucking wasted and it's going to take a bit for the booze and meth to clear the system. 

[Brisketexan 105190]

My great uncle was a neurosurgeon.  I wasn't but probably 8 years old when he lectured me: "Promise me you'll never get on a goddamned motorcycle.  I'm sick and tired of spending my weekends trying to shovel some idiot's brains back into his skull with a spatula."  The imagery was....effective.  I've never been on a motorbike on the road.  I rode a dirt bike a time or two, but that's it.

[conVINCEd 21469]

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

My great uncle was a neurosurgeon.  I wasn't but probably 8 years old when he lectured me: "Promise me you'll never get on a goddamned motorcycle.  I'm sick and tired of spending my weekends trying to shovel some idiot's brains back into his skull with a spatula."  The imagery was....effective.  I've never been on a motorbike on the road.  I rode a dirt bike a time or two, but that's it.

Having to look through hundreds/thousands  of insurance claims (with photos) is very effective as well.

[Dewey 3286]

How is that possible? I've lived in two places with big rallies and all I saw were people trailering their bikes in, drinking wine and ultra light and riding around very slowly. 

[Armybrat 40860]

3 minutes ago, Dewey said:

How is that possible? I've lived in two places with big rallies and all I saw were people trailering their bikes in, drinking wine and ultra light and riding around very slowly. 

You lived in England?

 

[Dewey 3286]

22 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

You lived in England?

 

Close Austin then Galveston. 

[High Plains Drifter 11050]

 

Where I live is a popular biking area. They bring their bikes in on trailers, stay in a hotel, and go day riding on some scenic highways. No big rallies (thank god), just a continuous trickle during the warmer months. We probably average 1 or 2 motorcycle deaths a year.

[Homercles 10206]

I stopped going a few years after I sold my motorcycle, but went to ROT a good dozen times from 2007-2019.  Moving it to COTA, then whatever god forsaken glorified field it’s in now, was the end of the road for me…plus it was expensive for what you got, the acts were shit, and it was the same people doing the same shit.  
 

I’m always amazed there weren’t more deaths around town or at the grounds…I think the primary saving grace was that most of the dumbest shit, where there was a crowd to show off to, happened at all of 15mph.  The ‘parade’ downtown became a slow crawl of overheated Harley’s and the ‘parade route’ around the Expo center barely moved at all late in the evening when people were most drunk…had to call 911 once due to a cart tipping over with head injuries but everything else was fender benders.  

[DigglerontheHoof 21209]

I love riding my motorcycles but i avoid rallies at all costs.  Nothing but drunk idiots. 

[hornian 5222]

On 12/1/2022 at 2:26 PM, Brisketexan said:

My great uncle was a neurosurgeon.  I wasn't […], but that's it.

FIFY

[Brisketexan 105190]

4 minutes ago, hornian said:

FIFY

Well, what you and I do AIN'T exactly brain surgery, so....yeah....

[hookemATL 11806]

Organ donation should be compulsory if you want a motorcycle license. 

[83Horn 1642]

46 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

Organ donation should be compulsory if you want a motorcycle license. 

Why?

[deadshank 24653]

48 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

Organ donation should be compulsory if you want a motorcycle license. 

 

1 minute ago, 83Horn said:

Why?

Livers are pre-primed with cirrhosis 

[hookemATL 11806]

19 minutes ago, 83Horn said:

Why?

The chances of a fatality in a motorcycle accident are approximately 30 times higher than in a car. Motorcycle accidents have a staggering 80% injury or death rate, while car accidents remain around 20%.
 

numbers game bruh. I gotta get that  third kidney and backup taint from somewheres. 

Edited December 10, 2022 by hookemATL
Everyone able to do so should be an organ donor.

[83Horn 1642]

1 hour ago, hookemATL said:

The chances of a fatality in a motorcycle accident are approximately 30 times higher than in a car. Motorcycle accidents have a staggering 80% injury or death rate, while car accidents remain around 20%.
 

numbers game bruh. I gotta get that  third kidney and backup taint from somewheres. 

No argument on the organ donation thing, if that's what you choose to do, but if you're going to make it mandatory for people who choose to engage in higher risk activities like motorcycle riding, skydiving, etc., you should also ban alcoholics, smokers, drug addicts, etc. from receiving organ donations.  Take better care of your original set of organs, and maybe you wouldn't need that transplant.

[Tailgate 3022]

Came within hours of buying a Yamaha Virago my junior year of H.S. My mom said no problem, you just can’t live here if you buy it.

So. Never got one for the road…no ragrats. Did love running around the woods on a mini bike as a youngster.

[Hate 20129]

Kind of a win-win, really.  Maybe they should hold some joint events?

[Steel Shank 9430]

@Tailgate  Some good trails in old South Austin.

Edited December 10, 2022 by Steel Shank