Will there be Halloween this year?

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Anonymous wrote:We're in the middle of a global pandemic and our nation's response has been abysmal. Who knows what the situation will be come Halloween. If it continues to be as it is, I don't think we'll be out and about ringing stranger's doorbells. All that will be cancelled.

Again. It won’t be canceled. It can’t be canceled. Families that don’t want to participate won’t. That’s how it will work.

Of course it can be canceled. Don't think it will be though.

You can't cancel a date. October 31st will come and go like it does every year. You can't legally force people to stay in their houses and not walk around knocking on doors, for one night.

Well, if we’re under stay at home orders, yes, that is exactly what will happen. The social stigma of knocking on someone’s door to get candy if we’re mid wave will be too high for most people to consider it.

In other countries they are very serious about quarantine. They enforce the number of yards you can go from your home using tracking technology. Everyone here thinks the pandemic is NBD though so not sure we will see that. But it cuts both ways, because due to the level of spread we’re in a very tricky situation for holidays.

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But we aren’t under stay at home orders. In VA we are in phase 3. Our virus spread is really low.

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Anonymous wrote:Counties put out hours for trick or treating so I don’t think it will be a stretch for them to say no trick or treating if they decide it’s warranted. Whether people follow it or not will be up to them as I seriously doubt any ban would be enforced.

I have never heard of such a thing. “Hours for trick or treating” scheduled by local govt is not a thing around here.

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Anonymous wrote:Counties put out hours for trick or treating so I don’t think it will be a stretch for them to say no trick or treating if they decide it’s warranted. Whether people follow it or not will be up to them as I seriously doubt any ban would be enforced.

I have never heard of such a thing. “Hours for trick or treating” scheduled by local govt is not a thing around here.

Yeah, people don't buy into this here.

I'm sure there will be fewer kids and fewer houses with treats, but things will still go on.

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Anonymous wrote:Counties put out hours for trick or treating so I don’t think it will be a stretch for them to say no trick or treating if they decide it’s warranted. Whether people follow it or not will be up to them as I seriously doubt any ban would be enforced.

That must be a Maryland & Virginia thing.

Nope, VA doesn’t have “hours” for ToT. We did when I lived in Ohio as a kid though. And it wasn’t even at night time, it was always the Saturday before Halloween from 1-4 in the afternoon. So that tells me that PP isn’t even posting from this area, which is completely muddling the discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:Counties put out hours for trick or treating so I don’t think it will be a stretch for them to say no trick or treating if they decide it’s warranted. Whether people follow it or not will be up to them as I seriously doubt any ban would be enforced.

I have never heard of such a thing. “Hours for trick or treating” scheduled by local govt is not a thing around here.

Yeah, people don't buy into this here.

I'm sure there will be fewer kids and fewer houses with treats, but things will still go on.

Bet MoCo will figure out how to heavily regulate (or cancel) halloween this year. Watch out DC and VA, our little gremlins are comin' for ya!

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Anonymous wrote:Halloween is not an official thing that can be canceled, or scheduled. If people want to trick or treat, it’s still a free country. Cower in your house with your light off but we are going to be outside passing out candy.

I will be in my house with the lights on, not answering the door. Why would I cower in the dark because I choose not to hand out candy?

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely will be handing out candy and taking my kids trick or treating. Why not?

Because some of us don't want you coming to our house as we are acting responsibly with COVID.

Leave your front light off and don’t answer the door if someone rings the bell, fool. It’s easy to not participate.

Why do you feel the need to name call? I don't want my door bell rung by your brat who you refuse to teach responsibility to as you take none yourself.

Pot, meet kettle.

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Anonymous wrote:Halloween is on and will be celebrated in our household. Trick or Treaters are welcome and we will pass out candy.

This is actually why I wouldn't want to take my kids trick or treating - I don't want some people handing them candy.

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Anonymous wrote:If there can be BLM protest mobs in the street, there can be a stream of tricker treaters, too. FFS.

I was waiting to see how long it wouytake for some idiot to post this.

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Anonymous wrote:Given that most kids open and eat candy while they are out, I think it’s too risky to have kids putting their hands in communal candy bowls. If it isn’t canceled I’ll put candy out On a table in my driveway in small treat bags, and hope kids only touch one bag.

Np: I’m not sure “most” kids do this - in my 48 years of life, I never witnessed that as a child or parent. Look

DP. My friends and I did as kids and my kids and their friends also do it. It's easy enough, though, to just tell them not to do that this year.

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It’s going to entirely depend on your community. But I am 100% sure ours will have Halloween. People are of course free to opt out (as they always were) but most people are going to participate.

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My annual haunted house will continue, socially distant and viewed from afar but yes your kids will be scared. Very scared.

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Halloween is perfect for pandemic life - sociallyu distant, outdoors, everyone in masks...and the virus basically doesn't live on surfaces very long so as long as there isn't lengthy touching (i.e. candy goes right into the bag) and some hand sanitizer around in case there is, NBD.

Grouches who don't answer their door exist every year - maybe there will be more of them this year.

I may skip the fog machine this year though.

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Anonymous wrote:But we aren’t under stay at home orders. In VA we are in phase 3. Our virus spread is really low.

It’s not Halloween. Wait to see what happens after Labor Day, colleges coming back, etc.