My town is still doing trick or treat 🙃
it’s supposed to pour rain and be below 40 degrees F all day 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Y’all I know you’re trying to be kind and responsible but leaving a bowl of candy out on the porch and staying inside only protects YOU. That’s still a bowl full of food kids are sticking their hands into, gathering at your house to access, etc. it’s still a covid spread point.
The actual responsible thing is to fully remove your household from trick or treat. Don’t participate at all.
I know it sucks and it’s a huge bummer, but a bigger bummer will be seeing numbers in schools and adults with children skyrocketing in a week.
Y’all I appreciate all the fun, cool ideas you have for handing out candy to individual kids, but the fact is that no matter how you do it, if you’re giving out candy, you’re encouraging children to gather in your neighborhood to collect that candy. Many trick-or-treaters aren’t supervised by parents, and many parents wouldn’t enforce social distancing even if they were there.
I KNOW how desperate we all are to feel any semblance of peace and happiness right now. I get the intention, and I know it’s good.
But we are in a pandemic. Cases are on the rise once again in much of the world. My county, which had sustained less than 50 cases for almost the entire pandemic, has just gotten into the hundreds for the first time since this began, because people are getting fatigued, and that makes us careless.
It doesn’t matter if it’s outside. It doesn’t matter if you use individual candy baggies, or throw chocolate bars to one kid at a time, etc.
Trick-or-treating taking place in any form is encouraging large groups of people, mostly children who can’t understand or won’t participate in safety guidelines, to gather together in concentrated areas during a deadly pandemic.
There’s no truly safe way to do it. I know you have a good heart, and I really do respect and love that about you, but if you’re planning to participate in trick-or-treat, please reconsider.
