The relentless progress of the Coronavirus dominated our most popular articles this last week as completely as it did the mainstream media.

Our most popular piece by a very wide margin, with readership comparable to the combined total of the next two articles, was my own discussion of the story of Dr. Sarah Cody, an obscure California official who may have been responsible for saving a million or more American lives.  As Public Health Officer of Santa Clara County, Dr. Cody and her colleagues ordered an unprecedented lock-down of the 7 million SF Bay Area residents on March 16th, a bold and courageous decision that was soon followed by other parts of California, the state as a whole, and numerous other large states.  As I pointed out, the exponentially-growing spread of the infection suggests that delay of a single week could increase eventual deaths by as much as a factor of 25.  As a result, California has almost entirely avoided the cataclysm engulfing many other parts of the country, and prompted others to take similar steps.  Thus, it seems quite possible that Dr. Cody is responsible for saving more American lives than any other individual in our entire national history.  This piece was widely distributed, including being Tweeted out by a MSM journalist at Politico, while drawing nearly 700 contentious comments totaling nearly 75,000 words, a substantial fraction of them from stubborn Coronavirus Hoaxers, who still claim “It’s Just the Flu!!!”

Ranking second was Eric Striker’s discussion of the horrific Coronavirus situation in Northern Italy, in which tens of thousands may already have died, largely due to the total ineptitude of the political elites of the EU and the US.  Meanwhile, China has been exemplary, both in its success in eliminating the original outbreak and now delivering desperately-needed medical supplies to Italy and other stricken countries, while the US has done little or nothing, a thesis that was hotly debated in more than 400 comments totaling almost 50,000 words.

Third place was held by Pepe Escobar’s discussion of the efforts of the Neoliberal French government to prevent widespread public access to chloroquine, a cheap drug that may effectively combat the Coronavirus, instead ensuring that it generates large profits for the pharmaceutical industry.

Rounding out our most popular featured articles was the Saker’s discussion of other world developments taking place in the shadow of the epidemic, Philip Giraldi’s focus on the near-complete political takeover of Virginia by pro-Zionist political forces, and his own overview of the Coronavirus outbreak and its implications.

Finally, the traffic to our website easily broke all records for the month of March, representing an increase of 50% from that of late 2018, a very heartening growth pattern for our small webzine.