There’s a possibility that Covid-19 might have been engineered as an ethnically targeted disease against Caucasians and blacks while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese were “most immune” to it, as appears from the medical studies. Moreover, both American and Chinese governments are spending “hundreds of millions of dollars” on racially and ethnically targeted bioweapons, according to Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Kennedy’s off-the-record remarks recorded last Tuesday at an Upper East Side restaurant in New York City and published by the New York Post on Saturday were met with mixed reactions: RFK’s critics accused him of Sinophobia and antisemitism, while his supporters quoted evidence for such observations and called for focusing on the potential perils of the ongoing efforts of states to develop bioweapons intended to attack certain ethnicities.
Here’s what Kennedy said:
We need to talk about bioweapons…. We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically targeted microbes. The Chinese have done the same thing. In fact, Covid-19, there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. Covid-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. The races that are most immune to Covid-19 are, because of the genetic structure, the genetic differentials among different races, of the receptors, of the ACE-2 receptors, 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 if it was deliberately targeted or not, but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic differential impact of that. We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons, and we are developing ethnic bioweapons. That’s what all of those labs in the Ukraine are about. They are collecting Russian DNA, they’re collecting Chinese DNA, so that we can target people by race.
The Post article interpreted Kennedy’s remarks as peddling “well-worn anti-Semitic literature blaming Jews for the emergence and spread of coronavirus,” quoting a couple of prominent Jewish organizations, including the Zionist Organization of America and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Kennedy pushed back against The Post on Twitter, and stood by his remarks.
To prove the “concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons,” the candidate attached a peer-reviewed study published in July 2020 that found that Covid-19 was “strangely and tragically selective” because of “genetic susceptibility” among various ethnicities.
This is far from the only study on genetic susceptibility to Covid. Dr. Peter McCullough shared the results of an internet search with the readers of his Substack:
A quick Google search for Ethnic Susceptibility to COVID-19 ACE-2 Receptor yielded 504,000 results. At the top of the list was the 2022 paper SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility and ACE2 Gene Variations Within Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds.
An augmented Google search for Ethnic Susceptibility to COVID-19 ACE-2 Ashkenazi Jews yielded 92,500 results. At the top of the results was a series of academic papers about variations of DNA polymorphisms in ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and how these variations seem to render some ethnic groups more or less susceptible to COVID-19. with Ashkenazi Jews apparently being less susceptible.
Perhaps there is nothing antisemitic in RFK, Jr. quoting “an argument” that alluded to specific studies.
Regarding the second part of RFK, Jr.’s observations — namely, the warning against developing ethnic bioweapons — the Democrat urged people to look at the bigger picture.
“Let’s not miss the bigger context here, which is the need to shift our national and global priorities away from bioweapons, and weapons of all kinds, to focus on peace, freedom, and prosperity,” he wrote.
Bigger Context
How controversial are “ethnic bioweapons?” For what it’s worth, according to a Wikipedia article on the matter, the issue is not that controversial at all. Below are just a few examples of the military, political, and research communities addressing the matter.
Back in 1997, U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen referred to the concept of an ethnic bioweapon as a “real” risk. In 1998, the British biological weapon expert Dr. Christopher Davis reasoned that such a “genetic weapon” was plausible and believed the former Soviet Union had undertaken sophisticated research on the impact of various substances on human genes.
In its 2000 policy paper (pdf) “Rebuilding America’s Defenses, the think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC) noted that “advanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool” by American enemies.
In 2008, the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing on “Genetics and other human modification technologies: sensible international regulation or a new kind of arms race?” (pdf), dedicated to advancements in genetics and its potential to be weaponized. “We can anticipate a world where rogue and even not-so-rogue states and non-state actors attempt to manipulate human genetics in ways that will horrify us,” it stated. One of the testifying experts stressed that it was already possible to manipulate DNA to create modified infectious agents, new toxins, using genetic DNA techniques.
In 2016, Foreign Relations magazine posted a piece titled, Can There Be War Without Soldiers? In it, the globalist mouthpiece offered,
Imagine a bio-engineered virus able to degrade cognitive functioning in its targets, causing delusions or hallucinations — or a virus designed to cause sterility in a genetically-related ethnic population.
Arguing in favor of “bloodless” victory against the enemy, the article continued by stating that the United States is “actively researching” such options:
There’s no particular reason to kill your enemy when a bloodless defeat can be engineered through Internet disruption, robotics, or biological manipulation — and the United States, like many other powerful states, is actively researching a range of other powerful non-lethal weapons.
Getting back to Kennedy, in his defense, he posted a Substack article that raised concerns over China, as well as Russia and Iran, working on ethnically targeted bioweapons. The allegations are that China has been advancing its ethnic bioweapon research since at least 2015. The 2021 report in The Australian quoted the dossier by People’s Liberation Army scientists and health officials, which suggests that Covid, in fact, could be ethnically targeted.
In 2021, the U.S. Naval Institute warned that “China may already have hacked from medical records or purchased the genetic information of millions of ordinary Americans through genealogical companies such as 23andme.” So did members of the House Intelligence committee in 2022.
Despite the mainstream media’s portrayal of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as a “conspiracy theorist,” an “anti-vaxxer,” and an overall fringe candidate, he’s been rather successful in attracting donors from both the Democratic and Republican parties, according to a Politico report quoting his campaign finance files. The mainstream media engaging in a smear campaign and ignoring legitimate concerns over a viable threat is not exactly surprising, and does little to help keep the public informed about what is happening in the realm of biological warfare.
