If you told Martha Tsamis a month ago that she would be overseeing the distribution of hundreds of thousands of surgical masks and packs of hand sanitiser, she would have given you a peculiar look.

Tsamis is the owner of storied Chapel Street nightclubs Inflation and Chasers; fixtures of Melbourne’s clubbing scene for decades.

She scoffed when her doctor predicted that Melbourne would go into lockdown: “No way I believed my businesses would be shut.”