Timeline for Was the quantity of Fentanyl imported in 2018 enough to kill every American?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
16 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
|
|
| Jan 27, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/1089538544304041984 | ||
| Jan 22, 2019 at 19:13 | comment | added | Mawg | Do you mean that they all get drunk at once & fall into the fresh water? | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 18:48 | comment | added | Tor-Einar Jarnbjo | There is no need to only look at smuggling and import. The fresh water reserves in the US are large enough to kill roughly 300,000,000,000,000 persons if drunk at once. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 9:27 | vote | accept | Mawg | ||
| Jan 19, 2019 at 18:16 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @AndrewGrimm: Here's some UN import statistics. In particular, it shows about 1.07e9 kg of "undenatured ethyl alcohol > 80% by volume" imported in 2017, so about 8e8 kg of alcohol. With a lethal dose around 300 g, that's about 2.7e9 lethal doses. If you just combine the wine, beer and whiskey and account for their concentration, you get a smaller but still adequate figure. | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 17:52 | history | edited | Nate Eldredge | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarify affiliation of Meredith McGraw
|
| Jan 19, 2019 at 17:47 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | It needs to be noted that the above tweet says "faux brick". This implies that it is a piece of cardboard or some such. | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 12:59 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | BTW, look at the tweet and the comments attached to it. They reflect many of the issues mentioned below. | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 9:37 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | Curiosity question: is enough alcoholic beverages imported that, if drunk in one session, would be enough to kill every American? | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 1:49 | comment | added | TheWanderer | I know this is about the claim itself, but even if it's true, I don't see why it really matters. Of course there would be much more supply than immediate demand, so that they wouldn't need to constantly smuggle it into the US. On a comparative note, I'm sure enough aspirin also entered the US to kill every American. | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 1:01 | answer | added | DavePhD | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 0:52 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Major rewrite. Drop messaging about Trump. Focus on Fentanyl which is clearly the missing noun..
|
| Jan 19, 2019 at 0:45 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jan 22, 2019 at 15:32 | |||||
| Jan 19, 2019 at 0:30 | comment | added | JAB | Based on the "Fentanyl at the border" bit and considering Fentanyl's low median lethal dosage compared to other common opioids (unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2017/March/…), it would appear to mean "Enough Fentanyl to kill every American." This may help you revise your question to one on whether or not enough Fentanyl has entered the US to kill every American (though whether that specific factoid is meaningful would perhaps be a different question for a different site). | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 0:08 | history | asked | Mawg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |