Nobody seems to know what is driving Daniel Andrews on his road to Victoria’s damnation. Every time he turns the screw of restrictions, just when his citizens are gasping for relief, there is a gasp — of disbelief, not relief — around the country.  Why is he doing this when there is no valid (virus-relevant) medical rationale? Nor any other rationale? 

His stubbornness drives out any sense of empathy or understanding and confounds us. It seems to me that maybe we are looking in the wrong places (politics, power trip) for a rational explanation.   

Could it be that his motivations are not consciously rational but subconsciously psychological? Guilt. That powerful, destructive and all too human emotion that creates secretive demons within our psyches. Guilt. The overwhelming, corroding emotion...