# Did Covid-19 come from the Wuhan lab?

*Spreading disinformation? Covid-19 and the Wuhan laboratory*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/5/
- Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (18:58–21:34)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=1138s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/

**Topics:** Covid-19

**Question as asked:** Be honest: are you here to spread disinformation and conspiracy theories?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth denies spreading conspiracy theories but says Covid-19 escaped from the Wuhan laboratory, in his view by accident rather than design, after being engineered there.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says Covid-19 escaped, in his view accidentally and not as a plot, from the Wuhan laboratory where it had been engineered.

**Evidence, his words at 19:34:** “i think it accidentally kind of came out somebody accidentally got infected and it spread but they definitely were engineering it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=1174s)

## Longer summary

Asked to be honest about whether he is here to spread disinformation and conspiracy theories, Mufti Abu Layth says not at all, though he does question certain things. He says it is a fact, on which he would swear, that Covid-19 came out of the level-four laboratory in Wuhan, twenty minutes from the wet market, but that he does not think it was a malicious plot: someone was accidentally infected and it spread, while the lab had definitely been engineering it. He says this is not hidden, citing reports of the lab's work on coronavirus structure around 2018, and that the way it spares children and hits affluent people sounds engineered, ending with jokes about how it escaped.

## Sources and names cited

- the Wuhan laboratory (Wuhan Institute of Virology)

## Transcript (machine tier, 18:58–21:34)

[18:55] you know you go to the gym every day nothing happens you don't go to the gym for about like six weeks or or five weeks and then you do some push-ups at home and you start getting injuries and injury this one not nice my friend so people people people uh be honest from from heart be honest from heart man are you and this info agent at this info what's at this oh disinformation as in i am i here to spread conspiracy theories no no not at all uh i you see i i do question certain

[19:34] things though there's no harming look the covet thing i'm telling you as a fact that came out of the lab from the wuhan lab that is a fact you know the level four only biotech level 4 lab that china has just 20 minutes from the wet market came out of it i can i can swear on it but the question is did it come out maliciously like was this a great plot i don't think so i think it accidentally kind of came out somebody accidentally got infected and it spread

[20:14] but they definitely were engineering it i because they've been working i mean this isn't hidden just google uh wuhan lab and coronavirus in 2018 they had some breakthrough because of the engineering they were doing on the corona virus uh kind of molecular set uh structure and so i think they've definitely been engineering it it just sounds engineered you know what i mean the fact that it doesn't strike children the fact that it aims to kind of hit wealthy opulent people affluent people it's you know it sounds um you know maybe china was preparing it

[20:52] for the future you know saying don't worry in [Laughter] we future you so they were preparing it and accidentally [Laughter] somebody said oh very long day i go wet market what happened i flick myself with the blick not to worry it's not dangerous [Laughter] it's 20 yeah my year

[21:31] yeah yeah 2020. then next thing you know oh the world's locked down right so that's uh pretty much i think how it happened so people what is going on spectrum asks a question he says mufti my older sister has always asked why the quran is so centered on men and not women for example four women are needed to

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment eoKcNwGGIBA/s/5. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/5/

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