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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]No activity is risk free. It’s about risk vs benefit. Keeping restaurants open is vital for the economy. Celebrating Halloween in a traditional manner is not.[/b] It’s just one day, and finding a socially distant way to celebrate isn’t a huge deal. I think encouraging people not to trick or treat as usual will cut down on before and after parties, and generally help folks remember that these are not normal times. It is very hard to control mask wearing and distancing just out on the street as opposed to in a park or store. The last thing you want to do before flu season starts is seed more chains of infection for no good reason.[/quote]
This. We’re all going to be exposed to some risk, but if we cut out unnecessary risks, transmission rates will be lower. I need groceries, but I don’t need to obtain candy from 20 different households. My kids can go for a walk (masked) in their costumes during the day on Halloween and I’m sure they’ll get compliments from neighbors. I can buy their favorite candies and create a candy scavenger hunt at home. We can have fun while limiting contacts with others. I’m not buying candy for trick or treaters, so don’t waste your time coming to my house.[/quote]

No, no, no, no!  This so-called "risk-benefit" analysis is all off.  The knee-jerk reaction to tend to an allow an activity if it stimulates the economy and disallow it if the reverse is true is not science-based and is not how we will stop the spread.  It also has the effect of leaving our children to disproportionately bear the burden of this pandemic because the activities that bring them joy and serve their (very real!) needs don't tend to generate much $$$$.  What should be happening, alas, is that our government should be bailing out restaurant owners and other business owners.  The fact (hello science, research, data!!) is that restaurants, bars, gyms, etc. do in fact spread COVID.   Outside, fleeting interactions like TOT -- not so much, or at least much less so.  We will be TOTing (with masks, of course, and with effort to maintain physical distance) because the risk is low and the benefit to my daughter's mental-health is substantial.  TOT it is a Big. Fat. Deal. to her.  Don't be so quick to dismiss special traditions like this for a child as trifling frivolities.  Think about how just one special night out, a date-night, etc. can recharge and sustain you mentally and emotionally for quite some time!  She has sacrificed A LOT this year -- A LOT!!! -- and trust me, we are doing our best to help her develop grit, not  play the victim.  But, darn it, I'm allowing her this because the risk is in fact low.  [b]And I'd be lying if the fact that the adults in my neighborhood are willy-nilly engaging in far riskier activities regularly didn't factor into my thought process. [/b] [/quote]
I agree with you that we haven’t prioritized reopenings the way we should have.  I agree with you that the government should bail out businesses and keep restaurants closed for indoor dining, but they’re not doing that. Our pandemic response has been terrible. There’s more common ground between you and I than you would think, but WTH with your last sentence? You think the adults in your neighborhood “are willy-nilly engaging in far riskier activities,” so that’s why you’re determined to take your kid to their houses to collect candy from them?![/quote]

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