# Was Covid-19 made in a lab?

*Condolences, and Covid-19 as Russian roulette from a lab*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/3/
- Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (11:03–16:21)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=663s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/

**Topics:** Covid-19

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says he believes Covid-19 came out of a laboratory and was engineered, pointing to reports that it spares children and relies on cholesterol.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he believes Covid-19 came out of a laboratory and was bioengineered, citing reports that it spares children and relies on cholesterol to infect.

**Evidence, his words at 14:31:** “when i read this kind of stuff i feel um this definitely came out of a lab and it was definitely it was you know bioengineering tweaked” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=871s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth offers condolences on the recent death of a friend's father and prays for everyone who has died in the pandemic and for their families. He describes Covid-19 as like Russian roulette, missing many people, giving others a mild or a severe illness and killing some, apparently at random, and says it does not infect children. He mentions reading that the virus relies on cholesterol to infect successfully, and says such features make him feel it definitely came out of a lab and was bioengineered, since it seems to strike affluent, sedentary or obese populations harder than poorer countries. He says he wonders what will come of it all in the future.

## Transcript (machine tier, 11:03–16:21)

[10:37] i honestly don't know what's going on with the world is this what preoccupies the the mind of the of the conscientious i don't know man what is happening what is happening seriously this things are we forget that look we are part of nature we ain't different you know we ain't something sure we're in you know an an intriguing amazing anomalous aspect of nature but we are still part and parcel of nature just i don't know right so what

[11:16] is happening what is happening people what is happening let's take a look at some of this stuff right let me just bring up uh laughing and joking too much and becoming accessible that was our beloved abdul rahman hassan but that's not actually that just reminds me because of that page i did have one job becoming it was a uh i'd come across the announcement a friend of mine rajwan faraz his father had passed away

[11:56] just very recently he had seen it on social media you know may allah have mercy on his soul may allah grant him and anybody who's passed away in this pandemic may allah grant them but may allah also grant their family ease here as well it is very um i was just speaking today with some people about it and i was just saying that you know the i see that you know coronavirus

[12:34] it is um it's kovid yeah it is like a russian roulette isn't it the spectrum of it it's like russian roulette with a full you know magazine with an ak-47 many slots just are blanks most are pro many are blank uh some people uh what will what what it will do is it will miss many people it doesn't even infect children which is amazing but i'm saying it doesn't it'll miss

[13:13] many people it won't infect many people many people it will and they'll just have a mild flu many people it will and they'll have a horrendous flu um and then some people will just kill and it's like just you know it's just a roll of the dice there's no um i mean there may be some determining factors but it's not clear you know it's not like oh it only happens to people it could you could be healthy strong everything and it just gets huge just luck i mean although it's not very lucky but luck really that i think that's just

[13:51] whoa but yeah i was also learning about one of the features of um koved it was saying that for it to be for it to successfully infect it relies on cholesterol which is quite fascinating so it was saying people with low levels of cholesterol or people if they took certain uh if they were taking certain medication that was that was uh diminishing their cholesterol levels it wasn't as successful so i i found that very i was just reading

[14:31] that today actually so i don't know what that's i have to say all of these things just make me think more that this is you know what when i read this kind of stuff i feel um this definitely came out of a lab and it was definitely it was you know bioengineering tweaked because it seems to really be targeting because it doesn't you know the fact it doesn't attack children which is a blessing but it's amazing because a virus wants to infect its host but it doesn't with children

[15:08] and then if it relies on cholesterol it would be targeting a you know indiscriminately but a a first world population for the most part or obese especially america i mean america's it so uh countries with obesity and things like that whereas and that may also explain why some of the poorer countries haven't been hit as hard because the cholesterol even though they may eat cholesterol but they may counter it with one other dietary aspects and to the kind of hard work

[15:46] and poverty the access to that level of cholesterol even if it is to some people it's not as equally you know man it's not a sedentary sedentary lifestyle so you have to kind of burn that so it balances a bit of the um the cholesterol levels but i don't know i don't know man i wonder what will come of all of this in the future all right so i yeah i mean right what's going on my perfumes

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment eoKcNwGGIBA/s/3. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/3/

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