Nora Loreto makes her triumphant return to BST and she's got a new book! As the title suggests, Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic deals with how the media created a sea of confusion that obscured the major fault lines of the pandemic.

To illustrate Nora's case, we brought an absolutely reprehensible column from Matt Gurney at the website Ontario's public broadcaster, TVO. He wants you to know that he cares about COVID deaths, he really does, but at the end of the day people die of all sorts of causes, and that's a-OK.

We then read a Rupa Subramanya piece about how vaccine hoarding is cool and good, but that'll be in our bonus feed. For just $3 a month, you can access that episode and our entire back catalogue of Bonus Shiny Takes!

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