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RFK Jr. suggests COVID-19 could have been 'ethnically targeted' to spare Jews (www.rawstory.com)

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Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made another eye-popping statement this week, and this time it was about the origins of the novel coronavirus.The New York Post reports that Kennedy floated his new conspiracy theory about COVID-19 during a ...

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmmm...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/nyregion/coronavirus-jews-hasidic-ny.html

"‘Plague on a Biblical Scale’: Hasidic Families Hit Hard by Virus In the New York area, the epidemic has killed influential religious leaders and torn through large, tight-knit families."

[–] paper_clip@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, because some large fraction of ultraorthodox Jews refused to listen to public health authorities and insisted on holding giant maskless weddings. Less to do with fictional genetic engineering, more to do with repeated obstinacy in the face of public health.