Fentafloyd died in the morning, before 9 o'clock (it was pronounced dead at the hospital around 9:30 AM).
The toxicology exam was taken about 12 hours after that.
Fentanyl's half-life is somewhere between 2 to 4 hours. Let's take 4 to be conservative.
At time of death the blood concentration was ~8x higher than the toxicology exam (3 half-lives).
At time of death, Fentafloyd had ~90 ng/mL of fentanyl in the blood.
That is about ~10 times the average amount to overdose and die. Of course Fentafloyd might have some resistance since that was not his first rodeo of swalling drugs when stopped by cops.
Edit: points 2-3 do not apply, as some of you pointed out. I'll keep it so people understand the context of the corrections.
One of the main issues is that we are allowing them to control the narrative. What if we insisted that the real narrative is actually that China has flooded the US with fentanyl to kills thousands of people like George Floyd and destroy our cities? The conversation would become very different. Why is it that we have a genuine public health crisis where people are actually dying in the streets yet we refuse to discuss it and our health departments ignore it?
Could not agree more. We’re letting tens of thousands of our neighbors die each year in absolute misery and solitude. We need to change the narrative. Floyd deserves our sympathy and prayers as a victim of a totally different systemic problem. The media is poison.
Fentafloyd died in the morning, before 9 o'clock (it was pronounced dead at the hospital around 9:30 AM).
The toxicology exam was taken about 12 hours after that.
Fentanyl's half-life is somewhere between 2 to 4 hours. Let's take 4 to be conservative.
At time of death the blood concentration was ~8x higher than the toxicology exam (3 half-lives).
At time of death, Fentafloyd had ~90 ng/mL of fentanyl in the blood.
That is about ~10 times the average amount to overdose and die. Of course Fentafloyd might have some resistance since that was not his first rodeo of swalling drugs when stopped by cops.
Edit: points 2-3 do not apply, as some of you pointed out. I'll keep it so people understand the context of the corrections.
One of the main issues is that we are allowing them to control the narrative. What if we insisted that the real narrative is actually that China has flooded the US with fentanyl to kills thousands of people like George Floyd and destroy our cities? The conversation would become very different. Why is it that we have a genuine public health crisis where people are actually dying in the streets yet we refuse to discuss it and our health departments ignore it?
Could not agree more. We’re letting tens of thousands of our neighbors die each year in absolute misery and solitude. We need to change the narrative. Floyd deserves our sympathy and prayers as a victim of a totally different systemic problem. The media is poison.