“LINES, SINES, & SARS—will COVID become an endogenous virus? asks his eminence, T “#Kraken” Gregory. (AFAIK, no Nidovirus has ever become part of a metazoan genome & coronaviruses rely on an entirely cytoplasmic replication cycle.. so this is **exceedingly** unlikely) 
The convo itself should be linked & saved for comic value (I’m blocked by all of the major participants—someone sent me screenshots..). It’s entertainingly revealing.. Ed covers some of the logical issues here
https://twitter.com/ENirenberg/status/1619513345685753856?s=20
But a quick FYI: if you had COVID-19, it’s VERY UNLIKELY it invaded your reproductive organs. Not sure where that claim is coming from or if the data behind it is robust. (Ebola does actually do weird stuff like that and of course, still isn’t integrating into people’s genomes).
The only reasonable person on the thread gets the smack down from The Omniscient Infallible Ones With Many Followers Who Know Everything And Shall Not Be Questioned™️
https://twitter.com/MPrepuce/status/1619456396130664448?s=20
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