Poll: In England, almost one in five suspect Jews behind coronavirus - i24News

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China draws even more suspicion, with almost half seeing the virus as bio-weapon against the West

In England, almost one in five suspect that COVID-19 coronavirus was created by Jews, an Oxford University poll published Friday in Psychological Medicine journal shows.

While 80.8 percent of respondents said they did not agree with the idea, the rest agreed to various degrees, from "a little" (5.3 percent) to "completely" (2.4 percent).

In a typical conspiratorial fashion, the alleged motivation for deploying COVID-19 was shuttering the global economy in hopes of financial gain.

Curiously, about the same percentage of respondents was willing to point at the Muslims and their supposed effort to bring down the Western values with some help from the virus.

Nevertheless, it was China that drew the bulk of the suspicions, with almost half of the respondents agreeing to various degrees that COVID-19 was a bioweapon produced to destroy the West.

US officials have been looking into the possibility that the coronavirus had been engineered in a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the pandemic ground zero, with State Secretary Pompeo claiming there was "enormous evidence" to support this. Beijing denied the idea.

According to reports in US media, officials do not necessarily suspect malicious intent, with the virus seen as possibly escaping a lab due to poor safety standards rather than in a deliberate bio-attack.

In the meantime, the pandemic has fueled conspiracy theories around the world, including those building upon the old anti-Semitic tropes.

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Source: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/1590384344-poll-in-england-almost-one-in-five-suspect-jews-behind-coronavirus

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