Daily: The Hammer and the Dance – Overnight COVID expert Tomas Pueyo

<p>COVID is a paradise of hindsight – a world of self-appointed experts who tell us what should have happened – and sometimes rewriting what did happen to suit themselves. But what about those people who could see what was going to happen?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>On March 10 2020, writer <strong>Tomas Pueyo</strong> posted an article called Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now – it made strong argument for rapid lockdowns at a time when Boris Johnson was still arguing that washing our hands was enough. 40 million views later, he joins <strong>Justin Quirk </strong>to discuss what he got right, what he got wrong – and where countries need to go next.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>“Once you use the hammer, you can't use it over and over again.”&nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“Credentials are only one source of trustworthiness.”&nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“COVID has exposed how decision making in Western democracies is broken.”</em></li><li><em>“You know the system is broken when every country failed.”</em></li><li><em>“You can fulfil your needs for storytelling by watching Netflix.”&nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“The media's goal is to grab your attention, not to get your insights.”</em></li><li><em>“There's more hours of work per word in a book, than a newspaper article.”&nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“The easiest thing is to remove the stimulus. If you don’t go on Facebook, you wouldn't fall into that black hole of content.”</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Presented by Justin Quirk. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>