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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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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If you swallow the semen will absorb the virus and sacrifice itself for your health!
Be safe out there!
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Well, then it was your sister, subby.
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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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bughunter: They don't call it a blow job for nuthin'.
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If it enters your system, it can reach your everything from brain to gut to reproductive cells.
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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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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.
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