Didn't even do the back-of-the-napkin exaggerations right. If you convert the 3,400kg to mg and divide that by the LDC (lethal dose — cop) of 3mg and assume everyone is unlucky because God would have hated us for not voting thicc-trump , that works out to around 1.1 billion lives saved.

[–] Eiren@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Were they calculating 12mg as, like, LD99, or...?

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that not a reasonable assumption? I can't really find good data for LD50s, much less LD99s (due to that not being fully known). The estimate I've seen for LD50 is 3mg, so LD99 being 12mg doesn't seem like an absurd estimate.

[–] Eiren@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It might (?) be reasonable until you remember you have to assume every person takes exactly 12mg at once and exactly none of them have someone with naloxone around.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Assuming a perfectly spherical American of uniform density and no air resistance