COVID-19: A conspiracy? Appropriate response | Mufti Abu Layth

Yeah, and my thoughts on this actual coronavirus uh is that I think here's my theory. My theory is that this is not it didn't actually like patient zero wasn't the uh from the wet market. Although I feel the wet market may have been the initial cluster from where it spread.

It's interesting to learn people that within almost 20 minutes of that wet market within I think 32 km from it is China's only level four um biohazard uh laboratory dealing with lethal viruses amongst which it specializes in is the coronavirus. So, China's first level four bio lab was created in 2015 and it guess where it is?

It's in Wuhan. I'm not making this up. You can just Google it. It's in Wuhan and it's only a 20-minute drive from uh those wet markets that Huanan or whatever wet markets. Now and they've even a few years ago they had some kind of uh worldwide res- breakthrough that they were presenting on work they'd been doing on the coronavirus.

Obviously, the coronavirus is a group uh umbrella term for many that kind of stem from it, many strains of it. Now they deal with things like SARS. And when I say deal, they experiment with and explore. That's what they That's what level four labs do. They they What do you think they they don't just sit around watching bloody Netflix and and just dealing with I don't know acne and the common cold.

They deal with lethal fatal viruses like SARS and MERS and Ebola and things like this. So, they were dealing with coronavirus anyway for a few years. I mean, it's been set up since 2015. And if you think about it, that a global economy like China has its first level four lab only set up a few years ago in 2015 in Wuhan.

I feel in my theory some worker accidentally, I don't think it was an intentional kind of conspiracy plot, but I feel that they accidentally got infected, like maybe pricked themselves. And then probably thought nothing's going to come off it and fro- he or she is then patient zero.

From them it spreads, maybe from uh the cluster, the first cluster is the wet markets. So, this person probably like working, pricked his finger, is like does a does a nervous laugh like uh m- my bad. My bad. Uh ha ha almost got infected with a virus.

Almost caused uh global pandemic. Hey, anybody want some food? I'm going wet markets. 2020, my year. Hey. And then a few weeks later, a global shutdown. Stock markets are crashing, the economy's collapsed, nations are on shutdown.

Oh, man. I I actually genuinely believe that's more or less, I mean, minus the 2020 my year. Yeah. But I genuinely believe that this is what happened, you know. I think that some person in that lab must have accidentally infected himself or herself and from them it spread.

That's much more palatable. I mean, both are plausible. Then there was a bat I mean, there were bats in that wet market that leaked some blood and the blood got on some vendor's hand and the vendor touched his mouth and and they are then subject zero. So, I I feel anyway that's uh uh So, that's the So, I don't think so coronavirus I don't think they made it from scratch at all, but I feel that this strain was a strain that they were working on and engineering as in they were manipulating

Hence, they shared the genome structure so quickly. Like within weeks, China shared the genome structure of the virus with the rest of the world. And I know to explain it they said, "Oh, that's because we've been working on coronaviruses." But I think it's because they knew exactly which strain. And hence this strain is really strange.

It doesn't seem to harm children, which is kind of irrational for as far as viruses go. They don't really discriminate, but this one seems to have a thing for old people. Only. I mean, and it doesn't follow the rules. It's uh And I think that's because they were it was you know, part of the what they tweak in labs and and they work with viruses and they tweak them and they see how they react and then they tweak the molecular structure again and and see how it's reacting now and give it a certain amount of weeks and explore it and try to understand it.

And that's what virology is all about. And so, I think that's what they were doing with this strain and and My bad. I almost prick myself. Haha. Patient zero goes to get some lunch from the wet market. Anyway, um All right, somebody said with that uh played out the virus to be like a plague.

I don't think it's like a plague. To be honest with you, I genuinely think many of us have already had it. I honestly do. And I think in some ways uh dare I say this, uh not to sound morbid or anything, if we if it wasn't causing the the global shutdown that it is, which is tragic and obviously the deaths, which are tragic as well, uh and the suffering, unquestionably, but it's almost artistic in the way it spread.

It's It's unbelievable how this has spread. Like it's we are sitting here, what, I don't know, maybe 10,000 mi away from the epicenter. And within weeks, we we have it. And it's not airborne. I mean, to me, that is wow, if it wasn't for the tragedy, it's almost artistic.

It's like, wow. Uh I honestly And because I genuinely do believe that many of us here have already had it. Myself included. I've I've I put myself in that. I think, yeah. I'm ready to be I'm ready I think I'm going to be Give me a few more days and I'm immune. All right. Then we're going to benefit from the cheap travel. We're going partying, all right.

So, people, Italy is now the epicenter. Yeah, I don't get that, though. Do you think there's a missing ingredient that they're not telling us? Do you think that there's a missing ingredient that they're not telling us about Italy? Uh why is it become the epicenter? So, that's food for thought, people, but that's my theory on um uh on the uh on the virus coronavirus, COVID-19.

I do think that it was it's it's been it's it's a hybrid. It's not man-made, but it's definitely been manipulated in a lab. And I feel that the infection was not intentional. It's not a conspiracy like that, but I feel it was a leak. Uh which obviously China locked down Wuhan immediately. They would have locked down the lab.

Uh so, nobody's going to find out, but I definitely believe that. And I don't think it's nowhere near as dangerous as people are saying. It is dangerous for a select few, but unfortunately, but I think for most people, they won't like it'll just be they won't believe that they've had it. Like they may think that they've had it because they developed a little fever or a little cough, and within a few days it's gone.

So, yeah, that's my thoughts on it. And if anything, I think the government um is generally fine, but they need to assure the people to stay calm. They need to assure them that they will be stock coming, they will be this, they will be that, and and put