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How Did the Coronavirus Get Into Semen? | RealClearScience

In early May, Chinese scientists announced that they had discovered the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in semen. Collecting samples from 38 men with COVID-19, they found that six had the virus in their...

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Merltech

2020-06-30 11:52:47 AM

Because it's a virus? And viruses wouldn't be around without being able to spread by any means.

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brantgoose

2020-06-30 11:57:54 AM

ACE2 receptors are common on epithelial cells from the nose through the lungs and small intestie, and particularly in the testes, which may explain why men are more vulnerable than women except in modern societies where women are more likely to work in service sector, front line, essential jobs while men work in the back office, professional and managerial jobs that can be taken home virtually and by telephone or fax or whatever.

There are ACE2 receptors in many organs, tissues and systems in the body from head to toe. They are scarcer in small children and become more prevalent with age.

Ties it all together into neat little packages, wrapped up in brown paper and string, eh?

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brantgoose

2020-06-30 11:59:23 AM

The coronaviruses found in bats, by the way, spread poorly using these same ACE2 receptors. At some point, there was a mutation in some reservoir of animals and later more mutations in humans to make the virus better able to use the ACE2 keys to break into cells and trash the place.

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brantgoose

2020-06-30 12:00:55 PM

Evolution never sleeps. It finds new things to tinker with all the time. If you aren't be killed by good old fashioned war, violence, suicides and so forth, evolution is perfectly happy working with obesity, disease of old age, and the reproductive ability of gays and lesbians or of middle-aged Late Breeders.

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Shostie

2020-06-30 12:03:51 PM

Don't kink shame.

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OldRod

2020-06-30 12:06:08 PM

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PainInTheASP

2020-06-30 12:07:54 PM

Subby's dad needed a fix.

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cretinbob

2020-06-30 12:08:06 PM

Because someone doesn't know how viruses work?

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hobnail

2020-06-30 12:17:00 PM

I think it was the port call in Da Nang, wasn't it?

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halifaxdatageek

2020-06-30 12:18:58 PM

Contaminated sample probably.

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fark'emfeed'emfish

2020-06-30 12:19:22 PM

I mean... Was it ever tested for the flu?

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bingethinker

2020-06-30 12:20:17 PM

hobnail: I think it was the port call in Da Nang, wasn't it?

Is that on the way to Poon Tang?

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SpectroBoy

2020-06-30 12:20:33 PM

See that farkettes??!?!?

If you swallow the semen will absorb the virus and sacrifice itself for your health!

Be safe out there!

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bughunter

2020-06-30 12:20:55 PM

They don't call it a blow job for nuthin'.

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GrogSmash

2020-06-30 12:21:00 PM

Same way Ebola does? Its a farking virus, in your bloodstream, contaminating your entire system.

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Mikey1969

2020-06-30 12:24:09 PM

No mom jokes?

Well, then it was your sister, subby.

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ManifestDestiny

2020-06-30 12:24:30 PM

Because SARS-CoV-2 is not a respiratory virus. The respiratory tract is merely one of its main pathways into the body.

The more that comes out about the virus, the more it seems to be a virus that creates havok by attacking blood vessels and causing inflammation. That tidily pulls together all of the symptoms that, on the surface, don't seem to go together.

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Dr Dreidel

2020-06-30 12:24:43 PM

I guess you can catch COVID coming or going.

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amindtat

2020-06-30 12:26:19 PM

Because COVID-19 is a vascular disease?

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Colour_out_of_Space

2020-06-30 12:26:21 PM

bughunter: They don't call it a blow job for nuthin'.

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dionysusaur

2020-06-30 12:26:27 PM

It's not strictly a respiratory virus.
If it enters your system, it can reach your everything from brain to gut to reproductive cells.

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bingethinker

2020-06-30 12:29:44 PM

dionysusaur: It's not strictly a respiratory virus.
If it enters your system, it can reach your everything from brain to gut to reproductive cells.

So there are people running around with brain damage from the virus? That explains a lot.

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Claude Ballse

2020-06-30 12:30:09 PM

brantgoose: Evolution never sleeps. It finds new things to tinker with all the time. If you aren't be killed by good old fashioned war, violence, suicides and so forth, evolution is perfectly happy working with obesity, disease of old age, and the reproductive ability of gays and lesbians or of middle-aged Late Breeders.

Yup. Communicable diseases that spread rapidly through dense populations result in higher fatality rates when you over populate. A natural failsafe when ecological resources start failing stress tests, and you need to correct the population externally when it won't do it itself via war & violence.

Nature gives us unbiased chaos which we can't blame on our political systems.