This article was originally published in Danish on April 3, 2020.
There is concern about coronavirus in Africa. The healthcare system there is not the best, and it is far out in the remotest corners of the continent. Marie Ladekjær Gravesen from DIIS, one of the many useless consumers of public funds who should be shut down immediately and whose employees should be sent out to build coastal defenses with shovels, is nevertheless optimistic because the experience gained from Ebola may be useful in combating the new virus. Perhaps, but what does that really matter to us?
The truth is that Africa is overpopulated. Every year, 30 million new Africans arrive (the wording has been changed by self-censorship), who contribute nothing and for whom there is no food. The West will provide both food and medicine, so that there can be even more surplus people who can then seek refuge in Europe and turn Europe into a copy of Africa.
The West’s benevolence is bad for many reasons. The one mentioned above is only one of them, but it is an important reason for us. The fact is, however, that Africans live somewhat in a natural state. It is important to have as many children as possible to ensure the survival of the species. This large number of children cleans up nature, for example through disease, so that the weak die and the best survive. This is how a people develops in a positive direction. We are now suspending this mechanism so that everyone survives, and this is certainly not beneficial to the continent’s further development. On the contrary, we are ensuring that conditions in Africa – and later in Europe – will continue to deteriorate.
The same reality has prevailed here, but we have adjusted our birth rate downwards – too far, in fact – so that the individual is more important for the survival of the species than in Africa. I am not opposed to medicine. Nature selects with a very crude aim, so it is good that we can save some who would otherwise die. We need every single healthy child and cannot afford to let anyone go to waste unnecessarily – even if some may have minor defects that would lead to death in the natural state, but which allow them to live completely normal and productive lives in civilization. Long live modern medical technology! But in the long run, it is also bad if we insist on saving all those who might die. Civilization can hide this for a long time, but one day we may have to pay for this in evolutionary terms, but that will be because we cannot control medical science and have developed some distorted moral standards – thanks, among other things, to the modern interpretation of Christianity. Only what serves life is good! And here we are thinking of life as a concept – not the small, insignificant personal life of the individual.
So leave Africa alone with all its diseases. They are of greater benefit to Africa than they are harmful. A widespread coronavirus epidemic would be a great good. Under no circumstances, however, should the Danish state make any financial contribution to the fight against coronavirus in Africa! We certainly need our resources now – we will quickly discover this when company after company falls into the abyss – or when the tax burden rises unchecked.
Povl H. Riis-Knudsen
Translated with the help of AI
Danmarks Frihedsraad 