Daniel Andrews is escaping the consequences of his corona catastrophe

New figures out today confirm what we warned you a fortnight ago. Daniel Andrews is managing one of the greatest escape acts Victoria has seen since Houdini plunged into the Yarra.

Every wonk will tell you there’s a secret to reading polls. You never look at one figure in isolation. That’s like predicting Saturday’s weather by licking your finger and holding it up to the wind on Thursday afternoon. Instead, what you look at is the trend, what the polls are telling us over a period of time.

Essential Research have been asking “How would you rate your state government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak?” since the early days of the pandemic, giving us that trend line — a trendline that, as their latest figures,…