Andrew Bolt: Andrews’ latest announcements don’t make sense
Daniel Andrews’ latest suite of nonsensical decisions smacks of a man getting lost in the nitty gritty rather than focusing on the big picture. And it’s a bit rich coming from a government that couldn’t get the basics right, writes Andrew Bolt.
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Has Daniel Andrews gone mad? Watch the Premier carefully explaining on Sunday which completely useless virus ban to drop and which to keep.
Here’s a man losing himself in mindless detail, rather than just checking out the big picture, as if his busy-busy bullying really did make any difference.
Consider. Andrews says it’s now safe enough to go fishing again in Melbourne, without noting that standing in the fresh air by a beach or river was never a health risk in the first place.
Yet he’s still banning golf, even if you’re wearing a face mask in a state recording fewer than 20 new infections a day.
It goes on. Finally a priest can hold a service or a wedding, but only in the open and only with four people.
But if it’s in the open, with social distancing and masks, what risk is there in having more than five?
And why can’t those five meet inside a big, roomy church, when Andrews felt safe enough to announce his new stage 2 rules to a pack of journalists indoors, with his mask off?
As for masks, why insist they must still be worn outside, even if you have a face shield? How many people have ever caught this virus outside?
Indeed, Andrews said Victoria’s latest 16 infections included 10 people in aged care. How many of them got the virus while strolling outside?
Andrews’ big changes were just more acknowledgments of uselessness.
Children can go back to school. But why were they ever stopped?
Not a single Australian student has died of this virus.
Oh, and Andrews lifted his curfew, unlike his stay-home law and bans on visitors.
But I can guess why the curfew went. It’s being challenged in court by a widow who says it’s destroyed her restaurant business.
She demanded to see the data used to justify that curfew, and the judge forced the unwilling Andrews Government to reveal it.
Big surprise. It turned out to be just two documents of data on how many people were infected and their circumstances, and nothing on what difference curfews made.
And now this curfew is gone, mid-case.
But, who’s surprised? This is Victoria, where the government couldn’t do the basics – trace the sick, quarantine them and protect the aged – and instead invented mad bans on everyone else.