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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have been following all the recommendations but I draw the line at Halloween. FU Gayles. My kids have suffered enough. If you can be creative about opening bars and restaurants you can find work arounds to this.  Disposable gloves for ringing the door bell; no touch candy distribution etc.  We are going out and will have the lights on. [/quote]

My child will be out, too!  This is ridiculous!

Halloween is outdoors with masks and with limited interactions - yes you are going up to doors but it is for 10 seconds max and can be done holding out a bag from a distance.

My child has been home for 6 months and hasn't been doing any social activities, sports, etc while other people and their children eat out at restaurants, go outside with packs of other kids, and travel on tournaments to sports teams out of state.

We are going trick or treating - it is much less risky than eating indoors or going to a bar, all of which are allowed in MoCo.

I will also add that i worked the census in MoCo and had plenty of safe door-to-door interactions.  If trick or treating was so dangerous, there would have been an outbreak of COVID among the 400,000 census workers in the U.S. - didn't happen.[/quote]

Read your post.  Not safe at all.  You are proposing going to someone's door, close up and getting handed candy.  The issue is your child being contagious and bring it to each house.[/quote]

I'm a census worker. I've gone to hundreds of houses in this area, maybe even yours. When you wear a mask, keep your distance and are outside it is not high risk. It's lower risk than going to the grocery store or the gym. If this was really high risk, you'd be reading about large outbreaks of covid among census workers but you're not. Because there is a way to go door to door safely and it's been done for months. And yes, I've been tested multiple times.

I don't go out to eat, I don't go to bars, I don't hang out with friends. I'm very cautious in my personal life. But trick or treating with masks on, staying outdoors, and socially distanced is no more dangerous than activities most people are already doing in their lives.

If all people are wearing masks and the interaction is outside and short (it only takes 30 seconds to hold out a bag and have candy dropped in) it is absolutely low risk. Adults can put a table outside so kids don't even have to go up to the door, and parents can walk with their kids to make sure no one is crowding a door or table at the same time.

It's the difference between telling everyone not to have sex vs giving them instructions on how to wear a condom and use it every time. People are going to have sex, so teach them how to do it safely.

[b]Kids sit at home while adults hang out at bars until midnight in moco. [/b]Surely truck or treating with masks and precautions is less risky than that[/quote]

I think that’s what annoys me about this and other aspects of the reopening (or lack thereof) in the county.  Activities for kids constantly get the shaft. Took playgrounds and outdoor pools forever to reopen.  Now the Brookside light show is cancelled too?  Just sell tickets ahead of time for reduced capacity and axe the indoor stuff.  [/quote]

Yep. The county's response to COVID has never been consistent. Child-based activities (daycare, schools, playgrounds, etc.) were closed longer than made sense, while economic activities.reopened before they made sense (bars, indoor dining).

It's absolutely apparent to me that Dr. Gayles is more interested in virtue signaling than actually doing his job.[/quote]

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