We do a deep and masochistic dive into the Bloomberg Media's COVID resilience statistic and ask why did they choose to include things like commercial landlord profitibility. Our mailbag is a look into how the New York Times bestseller list chooses books and why Australians have little hope of getting on there.

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Chang, R., Varley, K., Munoz, M., Tam, F., and Makol, M.K. (2021 August). 'The Covid Resilience Ranking: The Best and Worst Places to Be as Delta Wrecks Reopeni ...