The man was still TALKING. You can't TALK and be choking at the same time.
You absolutely can. Forcing air out creates positive pressure, which your body is able to generate much more effectively than the negative pressure required to draw it in. You can squeeze out words for quite a while without being able to get any air in.
"If you can speak, you can breathe" is a lethal falsehood that people need to stop spreading. It only applies to people on their own, not people who have others forcibly restricting their airway.
I play a wind instrument. You don't have a large supply of air to expel if you aren't breathing, which is why circular breathing is used to enable you to play continuously. You might be able to croak out a quick "I can't breathe" once or twice if you have enough air in your lungs, but you aren't going to be saying it repeatedly over a period of minutes unless you are breathing.
I don't know the numbers here, but I can make the point with made up numbers.
Imagine your body needs 100 liters of air per minute to function the way it needs to.
Now imagine someone is squeezing your lungs and neck, making it where you can only draw in 75 liters of air per minute.
Your body is receiving only 75% of the oxygen it needs to survive. You don't pass out immediately, but you also can tell you're not getting enough air. Your blood slowly begins to lose oxygenation, causing you to feel like you're drowning and can't breathe, despite being able to move air through your lungs and being able to speak.
After several minutes, your body starts to shut down, you stop struggling and couldn't move or fight even if you wanted to, and eventually your brain shuts off and you lose consciousness because, again, despite being able to move air, you're not moving enough air to survive because someone is sitting on your back and someone else has their knee on your throat.
Does that scenario sound familiar to you? Still think "If you can speak, you can breathe" is an accurate statement?
Your blood slowly begins to lose oxygenation, causing you to feel like you're drowning and can't breathe, despite being able to move air through your lungs and being able to speak.
You just undercut your entire argument by describing a situation where someone is breathing, albeit at a reduced capacity. Yes, you can struggle to speak a word or two when you are short of breath, because you are still moving air through your lungs and breathing. In the situation you describe, where you are in a critical state of reduced air intake, you aren’t going to be saying anything, because your intake of air is the priority and you can’t do that while you are speaking.
Anyone who has suffered a severe asthma attack or has exerted themselves to the point of being completely winded has been in the state you describe. They are still breathing and still conscious, but they are not talking because they are instead gasping for breath. Even if they reached a point where they passed out, they are still breathing, because breathing does not require consciousness. Your brain does not “shut off” when you lose consciousness.
So, to answer your questions: yes, that scenario sounds familiar to me because my wife suffers from asthma and I have exerted myself to the point of being completely winded. It doesn’t sound familiar to me related to this case though. The autopsy report itself makes no mention of asphyxiation.
Yes, I still think that “If you can speak, you can breathe” is generally an accurate statement.
You absolutely can. Forcing air out creates positive pressure, which your body is able to generate much more effectively than the negative pressure required to draw it in. You can squeeze out words for quite a while without being able to get any air in.
"If you can speak, you can breathe" is a lethal falsehood that people need to stop spreading. It only applies to people on their own, not people who have others forcibly restricting their airway.
I play a wind instrument. You don't have a large supply of air to expel if you aren't breathing, which is why circular breathing is used to enable you to play continuously. You might be able to croak out a quick "I can't breathe" once or twice if you have enough air in your lungs, but you aren't going to be saying it repeatedly over a period of minutes unless you are breathing.
I don't know the numbers here, but I can make the point with made up numbers.
Imagine your body needs 100 liters of air per minute to function the way it needs to.
Now imagine someone is squeezing your lungs and neck, making it where you can only draw in 75 liters of air per minute.
Your body is receiving only 75% of the oxygen it needs to survive. You don't pass out immediately, but you also can tell you're not getting enough air. Your blood slowly begins to lose oxygenation, causing you to feel like you're drowning and can't breathe, despite being able to move air through your lungs and being able to speak.
After several minutes, your body starts to shut down, you stop struggling and couldn't move or fight even if you wanted to, and eventually your brain shuts off and you lose consciousness because, again, despite being able to move air, you're not moving enough air to survive because someone is sitting on your back and someone else has their knee on your throat.
Does that scenario sound familiar to you? Still think "If you can speak, you can breathe" is an accurate statement?
You just undercut your entire argument by describing a situation where someone is breathing, albeit at a reduced capacity. Yes, you can struggle to speak a word or two when you are short of breath, because you are still moving air through your lungs and breathing. In the situation you describe, where you are in a critical state of reduced air intake, you aren’t going to be saying anything, because your intake of air is the priority and you can’t do that while you are speaking.
Anyone who has suffered a severe asthma attack or has exerted themselves to the point of being completely winded has been in the state you describe. They are still breathing and still conscious, but they are not talking because they are instead gasping for breath. Even if they reached a point where they passed out, they are still breathing, because breathing does not require consciousness. Your brain does not “shut off” when you lose consciousness.
So, to answer your questions: yes, that scenario sounds familiar to me because my wife suffers from asthma and I have exerted myself to the point of being completely winded. It doesn’t sound familiar to me related to this case though. The autopsy report itself makes no mention of asphyxiation.
Yes, I still think that “If you can speak, you can breathe” is generally an accurate statement.