Will there be Halloween this year?

[Anonymous]

I will be placing candy in small ziplock sandwich bags and throwing them from balcony (Mardi Gras style).

[Anonymous]

Not in our California neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

I’m going to leave candy out in a bowl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cox Farms is cancelled. Assuming trick or treating will be cancelled. The stores are already full of Halloween decorations and candy.

Who the hell cares?

[Anonymous]

Celebrate at home on your own. No trick or treating is not the end of the world. Carve a pumpkin,make Halloween cupcakes, make crazy Halloween foods, dress up and watch a Halloween movie with your kids. You can even use plastic Easter eggs/those same size plastic pumpkins and put Halloween candy in them and hide them in your backyard. We always participated in dia de Los muertos altars at school and will just make out own at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Celebrate at home on your own. No trick or treating is not the end of the world. Carve a pumpkin,make Halloween cupcakes, make crazy Halloween foods, dress up and watch a Halloween movie with your kids. You can even use plastic Easter eggs/those same size plastic pumpkins and put Halloween candy in them and hide them in your backyard. We always participated in dia de Los muertos altars at school and will just make out own at home.

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You can do that. My kids will be trick or treating and I will be chillaxing in the driveway with some
Full size candy bars.

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Anonymous wrote:Please don’t take away Halloween yet. We have failed our kids so much with this. Just wait and see how things go.

Teaching them to act responsibly in a pandemic is not failing our kids. Its responsible parenting.

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Your kids will survive not trick-or-treating for a year. I live in NJ and we had to cancel Halloween two years in a row in 2011 (freak snowstorm) and 2012 (Superstorm Sandy). The kids were fine!

I’m so puzzled by this. How does the government “cancel” trick or treating?

Issue an executive order and get the police and town governments to enforce it.

OK, so continuing this mental exercise to crazy town.....you think the police should be out on Oct 31, looking for kids walking around their neighborhoods? It’s a free country, Karen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Leaving candy in a bowl for kids is not ToTing. The whole point it to ring the doorbell, say ToT, and get the candy. It’s social and interactive, not just about going up to a bowl of candy to grab a piece.

If it was just a candy grab, I can dress my kids in costumes and buy them candy and hang out with a few friends.

I love Halloween and ToTing - our neighborhood is FULL of kids, and the streets and sidewalk along the blocks which do lots of Halloween decorations are swarming with kids. In fact, it’s busy enough I worry I will lose my kid in the crowd sometimes, especially when they run into a friend. So I am extremely worried about social distancing during ToTing.

+1. What’s the point of Trick or Treating if you can’t see and be seen, talk to your friends and neighbors, practice your manners of saying please and thank you, etc.? May as well just buy candy packets for your kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Celebrate at home on your own. No trick or treating is not the end of the world. Carve a pumpkin,make Halloween cupcakes, make crazy Halloween foods, dress up and watch a Halloween movie with your kids. You can even use plastic Easter eggs/those same size plastic pumpkins and put Halloween candy in them and hide them in your backyard. We always participated in dia de Los muertos altars at school and will just make out own at home.

m
You can do that. My kids will be trick or treating and I will be chillaxing in the driveway with some
Full size candy bars.

If your cases at low in your area, go for it. I am sure ours will be high where I live. The problem with not cancelling trick or treating in areas with high cases is that people will use the truck or treating as an excuse to do stupid stuff. It was the same when restaurants opened in my area. People took it as a reason to have parties and all the infections started from three parties held and attended by morons.

[Anonymous]

I’m taking my kids trick or treating.

[Anonymous]

People are so freaking selfish and truly don't care that their actions will make them a link in the chain and cause someone else's death. This is why we are in this state now. So many selfish people!

[Anonymous]

I'm one of the pro-quarantiners - we've been in lockdown pretty much the whole time save for some socially distanced outdoor outdoor activities like walks with a neighbor or a yard hang. I don't know if our neighborhood will do ToT but we will celebrate Halloween!

Definitely costumes for the kids, and definitely will have candy. We might just have the neighbor kids over for an outdoor projector movie in costumes with pizza and candy, but we are doing something!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are so freaking selfish and truly don't care that their actions will make them a link in the chain and cause someone else's death. This is why we are in this state now. So many selfish people!

My county has very low cases. We are out on the Chesapeake and people have been socializing outdoors like crazy. Cases remain low because outdoor activities are low risk. But if no amount of risk is low enough for you turn off your porch light and stew.

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Anonymous wrote:Please don’t take away Halloween yet. We have failed our kids so much with this. Just wait and see how things go.

Teaching them to act responsibly in a pandemic is not failing our kids. Its responsible parenting.

+1

Your kids will survive not trick-or-treating for a year. I live in NJ and we had to cancel Halloween two years in a row in 2011 (freak snowstorm) and 2012 (Superstorm Sandy). The kids were fine!

I’m so puzzled by this. How does the government “cancel” trick or treating?

Issue an executive order and get the police and town governments to enforce it.

OK, so continuing this mental exercise to crazy town.....you think the police should be out on Oct 31, looking for kids walking around their neighborhoods? It’s a free country, Karen.

I get that you just don't have experience with this but pre-trump people followed their mayors' directives about this. I have had Halloween moved by 2 days before. People followed directions.

Now we are a nation of jerks who have the green light to be stupid and jerky.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are so freaking selfish and truly don't care that their actions will make them a link in the chain and cause someone else's death. This is why we are in this state now. So many selfish people!

My county has very low cases. We are out on the Chesapeake and people have been socializing outdoors like crazy. Cases remain low because outdoor activities are low risk. But if no amount of risk is low enough for you turn off your porch light and stew.

Low cases makes it different. There is no one answer for everyone or every town.