Although the global Coronavirus epidemic continued to heavily dominate our top articles this last week, our most popular by a very wide margin focused on an entirely different sort of tragedy, the brutal stabbing murder of a seven-year-old white British girl in public park by a deranged Somalian immigrant woman.  As it stood, this shocking crime received virtually no media coverage, but it seems likely that if the races were reversed, the story would have generated international headlines for days, health crisis or not.  When the media landscape is so heavily tilted in a particular direction, it is obviously very difficult for either citizens or their elected officials to formulate reasonable public policies.

Three Coronavirus articles, tightly bunched together in readership followed, with Gilad Atzmon focusing upon the stubborn refusal of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel to comply with necessary public health measures, which also seems to have been a major factor behind the especially severe Coronavirus outbreaks in the New York area and other parts of the East Coast, with the piece attracting over 500 sometimes divergent comments, totaling over 75,000 words.

Just below but coming up very fast was an analysis of the long and suspicious history of American biological warfare research by Whitney Webb and Raul Diego, which drew major public attention during the mysterious Anthrax attacks that soon followed 9/11.

Fourth place was held by Eric Striker’s discussion of the shrill ongoing attacks against China by leading international financiers such as George Soros, who seem increasingly hostile to the tremendous Chinese success in increasing national wealth and industrial power without allowing the financialization of their economy as has been the case in the U.S. and Europe.  This position drew nearly 400 comments totaling almost 50,000 words.

Our fifth most popular article was Mike Whitney’s survey of the major signs that America is heading for a widespread economic depression, triggered by the massive Coronavirus outbreak, and the resulting shut-down of the economy, collapse of the stock market, and free-fall in international oil prices.

And rounding out or more popular featured articles was Brad Griffin’s strong rebuke to the legions of rightwing “Coronavirus Hoaxers,” who continue to claim—all evidence to the contrary—that the deadly disease outbreak is actually no different from our annual flu, often claiming that the catastrophe is being promoted in order to eliminate our freedoms and wreck the American economy.

Finally, my own article about the courageous California public health official who began America’s wave of Coronavirus lockdowns and thereby probably saved enormous numbers of lives, still continues to attract heated discussion, although after nearly two weeks it has fallen out of the top spots. The total number of comments is now approaching 1,200, amounting to 130,000 words, and total readership has already reached the #2 spot for the last month.