Daniel Andrews, the Premier who massacred Valentine’s Day

Yesterday was Valentine’s Day.  It was supposed to be a celebration of love.

It should also have been the biggest day of the year for florists, restaurateurs, café owners, wedding venues and the multitude of staff and suppliers all working hard to make Valentine’s Day the happiest of days for those in love and to keep their Covid-ravaged businesses afloat.

But not in Victoria.

Because of Premier Daniel Andrews’s panicked decision last Friday to place the entire state under hard lockdown for five days, for just a handful of known Covdi-19 infections, Valentine’s weekend was not just cancelled. It was massacred.

Flowers ordered but never sold.  Food ready to grace candlelit tables tossed into the skip. Long-planned…