Will Bread And Circuses Help Us Through COVID-19?
Bread and circuses is an old phrase that goes back to Roman times.
It looks like TV and on-line cooks and chefs and the supermarkets have given us the first, so do we need more of the second?
At the weekend, I enjoyed watching quality horse-racing on ITV, so wouldn’t it be sensible to get football on free-to-air television as soon as possible.
It might encourage people to stay-in, rather than gather in groups.
Would it cut the spread of COVID-19?
The Anonymous Widower 
Footy schedule on tv in June here—
https://www.rxtvlog.com/2020/06/full-list-of-premier-league-fixtures-on.html
Mostly on Sky & BT
Comment by MauriceGReed | June 9, 2020 |
I have a Sky subscription, as the house was designed like a Faraday cage and all radio-based signals are terrible in most parts of the house. I can’t get DAB radio either.
Comment by AnonW | June 9, 2020 |
I would like to think it would, especially when pubs etc re-open. I am not interested in football and have never been to a match – the only match I ever watched was World Cup 1966 on friends TV, we didnt have one. I didnt follow the match I was clueless – although to be fair I was only 9.
But people meeting together to watch matches live, on TV or online cannot be a good thing whilst Covid is still around. Although in a house if they socially distance, it may not be too bad.
Comment by nosnikrapzil | June 10, 2020 |