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Covid-19 and lasting erectile dysfunction: Here’s what we know

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19 pointsDoreenMichele15 comments

To the folks saying this is fake or a "psy-op," this has been in the scientific literature for over a year. Go to pubmed and google "erectile dysfunction" and "sars-cov-2" (the name for the virus that causes Covid). While you're at it, also google "orchitis" (that means inflamed / swollen testicles) + "sars-cov-2."

I've been saying for a year that this side effect needs to be publicized more, since some folks seem to care more about their junk than they care about their lives.

PS If I recall correctly, it's also in the medical literature for the original SARS.

For the record, I am very interested in trying to improve my mental model of how covid interacts with the blood. So maybe anyone who does happen to remember my name can keep that in mind in the future when I ask seemingly stupid questions or post articles related to covid.

Please and thank you.

From what I have heard, it interacts with endothelial cells, which are in the lining of blood vessels....I am not a biology person though so I'm just giving some jumping off points for googling.

But that explains part of why we're seeing organ damage, strokes, penile issues, etc.

This seems a stupid psyop to get men to vaccinate.

Of course it is. Not a single study has been done, not a single shred of evidence has been presented, it's lumped in as a possible symptom of the "long covid" baloney, the article itself even says that people might just be depressed after a year of lockdown or otherwise making it up.

Then of course there's the disgustingly obvious propaganda part at the end: "“Having vaccinations leads to having more sex,” he quipped. “I would suggest for young people to get their vaccinations: If they want to have sex, better to get the vaccine.”"

Why is it stupid? It might work.

Because it's unscientific fear mongering. There's plenty already around covid 19, it doesn't make people trust the experts so to speak more if such flimsy "evidence" are being thrown around.

If people cared about scientific this pandemic wouldn't take so many lives.

People care about fear. They by themselves come up with the dumbest possible fears. In absence of hope for reason I'd prefer they feared the thing that steers them in the life saving direction.

I fear you, and people like you, more than death itself.

Don't you fear more the people that manufactured and spread fear that made people buy products that harm them and the environment? Or people that manufactured fear that made millions go to wars so somone else can benefit? Manufacturing fear is game people play all the time. With effects way worse than saving lives.

Besides, fearing something more than death is not very reasonable. Your life is the only thing you have. You'll never have anything else. And your death is the the thing that makes you loose it. It should be feared the most.

I don’t want to get the vaccine until it’s out of emergency use authorisation and the consequences (long term) are more well understood.

Howeever; this title had my reaching for the phone to call my GP, until I realised it’s probably bullshit ha ha

The current EUA covid vaccines have already been tested on real people in far, far higher numbers than any vaccine has ever gotten before a full authorization was issued from the FDA.

I suppose there could be some long term effect, but there isn't even a hypothesis as to how that mechanism would even work, nor is there any past history where a vaccine has had a bad reaction months later, so seems quite safe to me.

There are actually hypothesis about that [1]

[1] Informed consent and reproductive toxicity of vaccines (Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Bret Weinstein) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMxuNvVgxlU

Why down vote without a reason ?

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