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Bread and Circuses in Pennsylvania

Posted by M. C. on April 23, 2020

COVID

While I believe all businesses are important, one has to wonder at Governor Wolf’s logic in deciding what is essential.

While people are unemployed, idled and wondering whether they will have a job when this is over, ice cream stands are opening in Pennsylvania.

Ice cream is the bread in bread and circuses.

Bread and circuses” (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal, a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD — and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts. – Wikipedia

We are being played.

Like the magician making you look here when the real trick is sneaking up on you from there.

Be seeing you

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