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STRUCK BY THE PANDEMIC<br />

Mattias<br />

Karlsson<br />

Member of <strong>the</strong><br />

Swedish Parliament -<br />

Former Leader of <strong>the</strong><br />

Sweden Democrats<br />

SHUTTERSTOCK<br />

countries. The SARS-virus most likely<br />

originated in <strong>the</strong> Chinese wet-markets<br />

where live animals are being kept, sold and<br />

butchered in <strong>the</strong> most horrific, inhumane<br />

ways.<br />

Yet, <strong>by</strong> all accounts, <strong>the</strong> Chinese<br />

Communist Party did not take sufficient<br />

action to stop <strong>the</strong>se practices.<br />

In 2007, microbiologists in Hong Kong<br />

alarmingly reported that <strong>the</strong> way <strong>the</strong><br />

Chinese handled wild animals in <strong>the</strong>ir wet<br />

markets is “a ticking time-bomb”.<br />

Still, <strong>the</strong> Chinese Communist Party did<br />

not listen and refused to take action.<br />

When <strong>the</strong> COVID-19 virus broke out<br />

in Wuhan <strong>the</strong> CCP’s initial reaction was to<br />

ignore it as if nothing had happened. The<br />

second reaction was to silence anyone<br />

who choose not to. Several of <strong>the</strong> initial<br />

whistleblowers were persecuted <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

CCP and have since disappeared.<br />

A study from <strong>the</strong> University of<br />

Southampton recently showed that if<br />

Chinese authorities had reacted only three<br />

weeks earlier, transmission of COVID-19<br />

could have been reduced <strong>by</strong> 95 per<br />

percent.<br />

The responsibility for <strong>the</strong> deaths<br />

and <strong>the</strong> suffering that we currently are<br />

experiencing in <strong>the</strong> West hence falls<br />

heavily on <strong>the</strong> Chinese Communist Party.<br />

The Corona virus, however, is only <strong>the</strong><br />

latest in a long line of human suffering<br />

that <strong>the</strong> totalitarian CCP has caused since<br />

it grabbed power in 1949.<br />

We are now <strong>the</strong> ones to make a choice.<br />

How <strong>the</strong> West manages to respond to<br />

<strong>the</strong> grab for world domination from this<br />

bloodstained totalitarian regime will<br />

determine <strong>the</strong> future for our children<br />

and grandchildren as well as <strong>the</strong> fate<br />

of our civilization built on freedom and<br />

democracy. We also cannot allow <strong>the</strong> leftwing<br />

forces in our own countries to divide<br />

and weaken our societys from within.<br />

<strong>Our</strong> civilization and <strong>the</strong> values for which<br />

it stands are at stake. In <strong>the</strong>se testing<br />

times, if we are to stand a chance, we must<br />

rediscover and streng<strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> roots of our<br />

civilization, our self-confidence, and our<br />

old alliances.<br />

OUR WORLD | MAY 2020<br />

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