Man With Staggering .55 Blood-Alcohol Content Dies; Officials Call It A COVID-19 Death

A big-time drinker in Montezuma County, Colorado, recently got so drunk he died (warn to rooiboozer and sharkboozer!!!)

The person’s blood-alcohol content (BAC) was 0.55 — not 0.05, but .55, which is nearly seven times the legal driving limit of 0.08 in Colorado.

A BAC of 0.3 is considered lethal.

So, open and shut case, right? Wrong.

The state claims the person died of coronavirus, not alcohol poisoning.

“County Coroner George Deavers said the person tested positive for COVID-19, but an investigation by him and the pathologist determined the cause of death was ethanol toxicity,” The Durango Herald wrote. “‘COVID was not listed on the death certificate as the cause of death. I disagree with the state for listing it as a COVID death, and will be discussing it with them this week,'” Deavers said.

The suspect ruling follows another in Ventura, Calif., in which a 37-year-old man who died from an overdose of fentanyl was listed as a COVID-19-related death.

“The reason, said the county’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Christopher Young, is that the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus was deemed a contributing factor, meaning the man, whose name and city of residence are not being released, did not die from drug use alone,” The Thousand Oaks Acorn wrote.

“Fentanyl intoxication is the main cause of death, and the contributing cause was a COVID-19 infection,” Young said in an interview with the Acorn. “They were working together to cause this person’s death.”

Hospitals across the nation are being encouraged to ramp up their COVID-19 death numbers and they get more money from the federal government for every virus death they have.

“We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE,” USA Today reports.

Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it’s considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases.

This higher allocation of funds has been made possible under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act through a Medicare 20% add-on to its regular payment for COVID-19 patients, as verified by USA TODAY through the American Hospital Association Special Bulletin on the topic.

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The person’s blood-alcohol content (BAC) was 0.55 — not 0.05, but .55, which is nearly seven times the legal driving limit of 0.08 in Colorado.

A BAC of 0.3 is considered lethal.

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So a BAC that is less than 1/2 of the legal driving limit is considered lethal? Read this garbage before posting it

The legal driving limit is about 2 beers. 

Uhmm Sharkieeeee. Let’s recap.  

The lethal BAC  limit is 0.3 

The legal driving limit is 0.08

You reckon 0.3 is less than half of 0.08? Correct? As you said ( “So a BAC that is less than 1/2 of the legal driving limit is considered lethal? “)

You sure about that? Let’s see. Convert 0.3 to fractions. That means 0.3 equals 3/10 or 30/100 right?

Now, half of 0.08 equals 8/100. Still with me? Half of that is 4/100  

Now, I don’t know where you went to school but where I went, I was told that 30/100 is way way waaaaay more than 4/100. 

Now I can understand that the above may be a bit challenging. If so, then consider this one. 

“The person’s blood-alcohol content (BAC) was 0.55”

“A BAC of 0.3 is considered lethal.“

Which one do you think is the bigger?

Don't make life  for SB too difficult - he has enough comprehension problems already.  LOL   

Don't make life  for SB too difficult - he has enough comprehension problems already.  LOL   

Wow...

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaaaa!!!

... die dom drol sit alweer die pot mis ...

Indeed, wasn't expecting him to be that...how can one word this?...blind???...or the alternative...?

While I missed the extra decimal(0), and therefore mistook 0.55 with 0.055 - this is still BS. 

And the religious ultra-right brigade trying to jump on this small error, have still not tried to work out the logic of Beeno's alt-right BS pretending to be news. 

Here is a Bac calculator - using baby beer units. 

https://www.alcohol.org/bac-calculator/

Beer  Unit - 12 OZ (5ab)-------- (which is a small beer, not a pint or quart). 

If the legal driving limit is 0.08 - which is around 4 beers, then 12 beers (0.32) is lethal? Sure, utter BS.  (And these are baby beer units). 

** When you use the calculator, it does not just add up numbers like a normal calculator. I can only assume the BAC level works this way. Current weight is also an influence on how the metric is calculated, and time since the first drink(a bit). 

When I go out on a Friday night(or at least when I used to) - I would easily consume 12 baby beer units. I have seen small women drink this much - especially in the UK and Ireland.

On major parties like New Year, I have consumed easily over 20 from Afternoon to sunrise. 

There is no way that 0.32 is lethal- unless you downed it all from a bottle of brandy in one go. Someone being drunk and walking in front of a car and gets killed died from the car, not beer or Corona. 

"the legal driving limit of 0.08 in Colorado. BAC of 0.3 is considered lethal).

Here is a calculator again - 

Holy shit, VisKop! 

I told you already, you can't suffer many more of these devastating Ls.

Why do you insist on doing this to yourself?

Just take a breath, make some tea, and clear ya mind of all the kak that is bouncing around in there.

I swear I can see you, in my mind's eye, fumbling around on the keyboard to come up with that weird excuse...and then cocking that up also.

Nee wat ou pel. Jy's soos'ie Engelse se, "A lost case."

...And then you had to finish it off with "But this is still BS."

Hahahaha haha hahaha!

PS, you don't seem to have an idea how blood alcohol is calculated either. Here's a clue. When you drink a beer, you don't automatically lose that beer's volume in blood through one of your orifices. FYI, if that is what happens to you when you drink, well just enjoy because there isn't a doctor born from his mother that can save you. 

"While I missed the extra decimal(0), and missed mistook 0.5 with 0.05 - this is still BS." 

Amazing...it got worse!

Snark, you missed much more than a decimal.

Hahahaha. Here we go again. Soon the Apartheid govt will be blamed for the miscalculation. 

These are the facts:

The guy had a BAC level of 0.55. FACT

The legal driving limit in Colorado is up to a BAC level of 0.08. FACT

The guy died. FACT

The lethal level of 0.3 is debatable. Some sources say 0.3 results in loss of consciousness with 0.4 being lethal. So, let’s give ou Vrotvis that one.

This, however, was ou Vrottie’s assertion:

The article is rubbish because of this:

“So a BAC that is less than 1/2 of the legal driving limit is considered lethal? Read this garbage before posting it”

Let us say that, for argument’s sake, that the lethal BAC level is 0.4, then ou Vrottie’s argument remains hilariously ridiculous. It would only change the implications of his assertion from “0.3 is less than 1/2 of 0.08” to “0.4 is less than half of 0.08”. It actually makes it even more laughable, the higher the lethal level is.

And then, suddenly it dawns on ou Vrottie...... :

“FFS, this makes me look immensely stupid. I have to do something. What can I do? Think Vrottie, think. Ahhhh I know. I’ll attack Beeno and his religion and those pesky right wingers again.

And just to throw them even further, I’ll try to impress them by telling them how much this fine specimen can drink. I’ll tell them that I can easily down 12 beers on a Friday evening. They don’t have to know that that is a rough estimation because, after the second one I’m so pissed that I don’t know the difference between 1 and 11”.

What noise does a fish make when it drowns?

On evidence at hand, I submit that this is the exact sound...

"Redneck...bloop...Christian...bloop....Trump...bloop bloop."

Even Draad could probably drink more than 12 baby beers (6 pints) and be in a reasonable state. No way is 0.3 is lethal. 

I have seen girls that weigh about 60kg drink more than 12 pints (24 baby beer units).  

Go into a pub in London even during the week, and there will be many people who have consumed more than this "lethal" amount. 6 Pints.... I have seen girls drink over 12 pints in a night in the UK.

I have seen people in SA drink more than one bottle of brandy in a night.

Ceradyne's mother once let him half a half glass of shandy and he passed out... Weakling. 

First thing, Vrotvis, I have never once dragged your family into any discussion. In fact, if you knew me long enough you would have known that I never do that to anybody. 

Secondly you keep on trying to be funny by asserting that I either deserted or went AWOL. Nobody in the SADF became an officer in the SADF having charges of AWOL on his record. Desertion? Do you even understand what desertion is and what the consequences of desertion are? I resigned from the SADF as a commissioned officer with a clean record. Nobody who has deserted can do that. 

An officer who is found guilty of desertion is sentenced to cashiering and then dishonourably discharged as a private. The execution of cashiering is a brutal humiliating parade. The entire unit lined up on the parade ground. The accused is marched out in front of the parade. The adjutant reads out the charges and the sentence. The regimental sergeant major then marches up the accused. He takes of his headdress and rips off the insignia, throws it and the headdress on the ground and tramps on it. He then cut off his epaulettes off his shoulders and rips the rank insignia out of the shoulder boards, throw it on the ground and stamp on it. Next he rips the buttons, medals and any other insignia off his tunic. Any sown on insignia is cut of with the sword. There after he is ordered to run off the parade ground, while being chased with a drummer playing a drumroll all the way off the parade ground and out the main gate. 

You would not have made it to lance-corporal, let alone become a commissioned officer, mate. You would not have made the training and the final endurance march . 

It doesn't work like that. It's not like pouring beer into a measuring jug....and no two people are the same, regardless of gender, size or shape...and it definitely isn't a linear line over time...to test. 0.3 or 0.5, a regular drinker probably have to down 2 bottles of hard liquor in a short time. For a non drinker, downing a glass of brandy might fo the same.

Draad

When drinking 11 pints, you basically replace all the blood in your body with beer. Didn't you know? It's still a scientific mystery as to where all the blood goes, but hey, life's fullo mysteries.

Same if you eat 11 cheeseburgers, all your organs are  replaced with 1/4 pounders. S'trus!

Haha

Next level Jedi sh!t at work here...we better be careful.