Hey guys, I powerlevelled awhile back about the difficulty in talking about the effects of the drugs, and I spoke to an actual surgeon for his input on this. He's a pretty leftie dude but he's pretty much 180-ed since this began on Floyd, and he explained something I was wrong on.
A common side effect of meth is pulmonary edema. (E-Deem-A). It stands for "fluid in the lungs". I described it as basically pooling inside the lungs, but it turns out it's actually inside the little blood vessels, and the increased "pulmonary pressure" from meth, whatever that means, makes it likely that the internal fluid ends up in that area. What this means if for all intents and purposes, there is no blood reaching these tiny blood vessels, and no oxygen exchange going on. Pulmonary Edema is not simply caused by meth however, it requires some action to occur.
Screaming, rapid breathing, or anything else that gets the lungs going quickly causes increased pressure to force the "lung juice" through like a sieve, trapping it inside the alveoli (little lung bits) and basically preventing breathing from occurring.
The result is a swollen, fluid filled lung that doesn't quite do its job.
And I did some quick research, and yeah. his lungs were. Not only were his lungs full of fluid, but they weighed a kilogram during his autopsy.
"1 kg" chuckles the prosecutor. Stabbing herself and pulling out a lung, and dropping it onto the scale. "My healthy lung is 1 kg, clearly his lungs were fine"
Blood drains out of bodies before the autopsy. According to studies I found, the average dead dudes lung weighs 250 g.
Meaning that drained of blood, Floyd's lung weighed the same as most people's normal, healthy lungs. Or in other words, there was as much fluid in Floyd's lungs than there is blood in your's at this very moment.
Just something I haven't seemed mentioned so far.