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[quote=Anonymous]I am so torn on this kind of thing in general.

There are lots of activities that are absolutely NOT strictly necessary! And which I'd be 1 million percent happy to give up if doing so actually impacted the pandemic in any significant way. In fact, I have given up almost all of them.

On the other hand, if activities introduce *very* little or no risk, then it doesn't matter if they're "unnecessary," especially if they also have less tangible benefits.

If you told me, credibly, that not eating apples would significantly reduce the spread of COVID, I would not eat apples. At all. Even though I really like them. I can absolutely live without them.

But if you told me not to eat apples even though eating them is unlikely to have an effect on COVID spread, yeah, I might eat apples. At least once a year!

I haven't gotten a haircut in a year, let alone eaten at a restaurant (inside or outside). I haven't seen my grandmothers. But those are higher risk than trick-or-treating IMO-- especially fully outdoor non-door-to-door TOTing, which is what we are planning. And restaurants etc. have less benefit IMO, because we know Halloween is not just about "candy" at all. It's second only to Christmas/Hanukkah/etc. for kids. [/quote]

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