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RFK Jr. says COVID was ‘ethnically targeted' to spare Jews
2023-07-16
The man is a stopped clock. Some things he is right about, but for the rest he’s lost deep in the weeds.
[NYPost] Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dished out wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories this week during a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant, claiming the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

Kennedy floated the idea during a question-and-answer portion of raucous booze and fart-filled dinner at Tony’s Di Napoli on East 63d Street.

“COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,” Kennedy hedged.

In between bites of linguini and clam sauce, Kennedy, 69, warned of more dire biological weapons in the pipeline with a “50% infection fatality rate” that would make COVID-19 “look like a walk in the park.”

“We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and we are developing ethnic bioweapons,” he claimed. “They’re collecting Russian DNA. They’re collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race.”

There has been a growing consensus among US intelligence agencies that COVID-19 was man-made and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China — but there is no evidence it was designed to spare certain religious groups or ethnicities, and Kennedy offered no studies to support his claims.

Kennedy’s remark echoes well-worn anti-Semitic literature blaming Jews for the emergence and spread of coronavirus which began circulating online shortly after the pandemic broke out, according to The Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at the University of Tel Aviv’s 2021 Antisemitism Worldwide Report.

A 2020 Oxford University study found nearly 1 in 5 British people believed Jews created the coronavirus pandemic for financial gain.
Nearly one in five Brits is functionally illiterate. The two sets intersect, which has nothing to do with what is or is not true.
“This is crazy,” said Morton Klein, President of the right-leaning Zionist Organization of America. “It makes no sense that they would do that. I read everything. I was totally against the vaccine. . . I wanted to convince myself it was correct not to take it. I have never seen anything like this.”

Klein, who said he had been advising Kennedy on Israel issues and called him a “good friend,” said the remark left him “worried.”

The son of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy and nephew of former President Kennedy has in the past palled around with Nation of Islam leader and notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

Kennedy’s campaign has drawn in disaffected elements of both the right and left seeking an alternative to mainstream candidates.

Some polls have shown him garnering 20% support among primary voters.

“The U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races,” Kennedy tweeted — reiterating his remarks from the dinner. “The furin cleave docking site is most compatible with blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews. In that sense, it serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons.”
If true, it can also be interpreted as meaning that Dr. Anthony Fauci and his pet CCP biolab equally aimed to protect ethnic Finns from harm — which is absolutely nuts. Not to mention noting that Finns are as caucasian as the rest of Europe. And then we must remember that very few African-Americans are more than partially negroid, genetically, almost all having a significant admixture of caucasoid and Native American DNA.
“I do not believe and never implied that the ethnic effect was deliberately engineered,” he added.
But it sure was easy to twist a careless statement.



The study he referenced: New insights into genetic susceptibility of COVID-19: an ACE2 and TMPRSS2 polymorphism analysis
Posted by:Penguin_of_the_Desert

#22  But we can go back to discussing whether or not Kennedy knows enough about genetics to discuss ethnic bioweapons and ignoring the guy who actually lobbied to have the virus made and helped subcontract it.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2023-07-16 23:57  

#21  It's late, so I'll prob. send email tomorrow.

Daszak's father Bodhan was reportedly a war criminal who got captured by the British but released in the general population after the war because if he were sent back to the Soviet Union after the war he would have been hung.

According to the rumors I've read he was an executioner at Janowska.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2023-07-16 23:56  

#20   Snomort Clunk7181, you make a palpable point... poetically. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-07-16 22:26  

#19  MacNails! It’s good to see you — it’s been a while!

Snowy Thing, what should we know about Peter Daszak's family background?

Posted by: trailing wife   2023-07-16 22:25  

#18  Mac at #13, a cursory websearch yields many recent articles from what we used to call reputable sources ranking "Muhammad" first. Uninformed speculation follows.

Most bundles of boy are named... no.
Um, Noah? Are Britons so slow
They can't follow the game
Allah's playing with names:
Multifarious spellings of Mo?
Posted by: Snomort Clunk7181   2023-07-16 22:15  

#17  Ah, TW has already commented....


I'm curious though, how many people know much about Daszak's family background?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2023-07-16 22:04  

#16  
Spare JEWS ?????
The data I am looking at does not bear this out.

There are couple nations with even lower Infection to Death rates than Israel.
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-07-16 20:19  

#15  Hi EMS Artifact, Mohammed is 37th in UK



These are the most popular names in 2023 so far, according to Baby Center.

Top 50 most popular baby names in 2023 so far

Girls 

Olivia

Layla

Maya

Chloe

Gianna

Hazel

Nova

Willow

Elizabeth

Ivy

Nora

Athena

Isla

Scarlett

Zoey

Delilah

Avery

Mila

Paisley

Lucy

Penelope

Eliana

Hannah

Leah

Madison

Maria

Savannah

Gabriella

Emma

Charlotte

Isabella

Ava

Amelia

Luna

Lily

Aurora

Sophia

Harper

Mia

Ellie

Evelyn

Grace

Violet

Aria

Elena

Ella

Abigail

Victoria

Sofia

Emily

Boys

Noah

Liam

Oliver

Elijah

Leo

Mateo

Ethan

James

Lucas

Aiden

Luca

Asher

Jack

Logan

Mason

Michael

Benjamin

Luke

Theo

Kai

Levi

Carter

Daniel

Henry

Sebastian

Jayden

Elias

Ezra

William

Jackson

Alexander

Julian

Gabriel

Hudson

John

Maverick

Muhammad

Adam

Nathan

Samuel

Thomas

Jacob

Waylon

David

Josiah

Atlas

Grayson

Matthew

Micah

Wyatt

Posted by: MacNails    2023-07-16 19:57  

#14  Maybe Kanye will be his VP.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-07-16 13:54  

#13  How many garage-based labs that the feebs set up for teefa amd BLoM?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-07-16 11:56  

#12  that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons....

How many DoD biolabs are out there in the world? How many just in Ukraine? Georgia?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-07-16 11:35  

#11  Article from Breitbart about the "allegations."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-07-16 11:23  

#10  I have no clue about the specific assertions made in this, but what I am crystal clear about is that a wide range of gnomish Chinese scientists in the PLA labs are diligently working to create a bioweapon that is disproportionately impactful on the Western populations. Clandestine Biowar as a form of new Bubonic Plague.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-07-16 11:14  

#9  Israel, IIRC, was a Petri dish for Pfizer and the Fauci Flu clot shot, so I'm a bit confused by this assertion.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-07-16 09:29  

#8  So, the same people who have no problem with antisemitism when a progressive Approved Victim™ spouts it have got their knickers twisted up over this.

Inneresting, ain't it?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-07-16 08:54  

#7  What percentage of British citizens don't have even on drop of British blood? After all Mohammed is the most popular baby name in Formerly Great Britain.
Posted by: EMS Artifact   2023-07-16 08:14  

#6  I'm sure the Israelis are relieved to find that out. /sarc
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-07-16 07:27  

#5  Ex-State Dept COVID investigator calls newly-unredacted Fauci communications 'an extensive cover-up'
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-07-16 07:24  

#4  I think the one reliable thing you can say about COVID numbers and science is - it's f*cked up.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-07-16 06:24  

#3  They areall thatway misswife
Posted by: Chris   2023-07-16 03:30  

#2  Indeed, he trained as a lawyer, not a scientist, lord garth. His history shows he assumes that mastery in one area presumes mastery in all.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-07-16 00:36  

#1  unable to find the data but the study was done very early in the pandemic

I've looked at dozens of these kinds of studies and I've been disappointed with them for various reasons, e.g. messed up sampling, improper control group.

I doubt RFK Jr. knows much about this.
Posted by: lord garth    2023-07-16 00:22  

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