He had no one but a very busy Auslan interpreter to share his burden for most of the long, long press conference.
His regular sidekick, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton, was on a day’s leave, possibly digesting the news that fans have taken to buying comforting blankets bearing his portrait.
No blankets have appeared with Andrews’ portrait, though he looked as if he could do with a doona and a good lie down.
Some of the journalists diverted from the usual line of questioning out of what seemed to be concern for his health.
Asked whether he was getting any sleep, the Premier actually missed a beat in his practised delivery.
"Does it look like it?" he asked.
“This is not about how frustrated I feel or how tired I might be,” he said, appearing both frustrated and tired. “It’s not just about me standing at this podium every day.”
With his audience well aware that he was indeed standing at the podium every day for what sometimes felt like hours to listeners and probably days to him, he added that his government would use “every platform, every channel, every mechanism we can to get the message out”.
Somehow, he maintained a certain wearied cool, though he drew on a reserve of heat at the skirmish of conspiracy theorists who have taken to refusing to wear masks and spouting nonsense about how the law doesn’t apply to them.
“Why give these people any more airtime?” he asked reporters.
The fools could keep Daniel Andrews up at night, if the greater emergency wasn’t already, obviously, doing so.
Tony Wright is the associate editor and special writer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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