It was sometime around 8 a.m. on July 15, the morning after I had interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for our Presidential Roller Coaster 2024 series, when the following New York Post headline popped up on my iPhone:

"RFK Jr. says COVID may have been 'ethnically targeted' to spare Jews"

What in the Sam Hill, I thought. This didn't remotely compute with the man I had been talking with only hours earlier. This must be "yellow journalism."

It was.

I knew it as soon as I read the first few graphs:

"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 63rd 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."

Hedged?

That's what the author, Jon Levine, wants us to believe, but I would imagine Kennedy, who has been researching medical matters for years and wrote that detailed book on the malfeasances of Dr. Anthony Fauci, is merely filling in something that has been known scientifically for a long time - that different ethnic groups are more prone to different diseases and therefore vulnerable in different ways.