Halloween 🎃 Cancelled.

Keesha

Keesha

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What a shame for all the kids this year. Halloween is cancelled.

This year Halloween is on a Saturday , with a FULL moon 🌕 and the time goes back so they’d get an extra hour to collect treats. 🍭 🍬

There are also no Halloween parties allowed.

I’m really feeling bad for the kids lately. I miss seeing kids out having fun together. Even not hearing kids playing is becoming eery.

It’s an outdoor event. Surely people could collect candy wearing a mask and practicing social distancing. Houses could leave a bowl of candy at the door so the door didn’t have to open and close.

Then again, safety should always come first.

How do you all feel about this?
Could this have been doable with a bit more effort in place or is it just not worth risking?

I hope the parents help do something special for these kids.
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It's sad, but safety first.
How would it work to be safe? Kids would have to sanitize their hands after each and every piece of candy they touched, if wearing gloves they would have to be changed after each piece of candy touched. You can't be sure some nut job who tested positive hasn't coughed all over the candy.
 
Yes. I understand it’s safety first which is why I wrote that and that’s it for their own good. It’s just a shame that it’s Halloween has finally ended on a Saturday with a full moon and an extra hour yet they can’t enjoy it.

It makes me wonder if Halloween 👻 Trick or Treating will be something of the past. It makes me wonder if this mask lifestyle will ever end or is this our new norm forever.

I know there are other more important things to think about.
 

So far, it hasn't been cancelled in this part of the country. ,, kids are allowed to go out in their neighborhoods for door to door t or t.

It seems my grandkids have been bucking the system since summer started ... they have soccer games weekly since July, and are now back in the classroom with laptop computers given out by the school. Every student has received one.
If they need to retreat back to online learning at home, then they have everything on their laptops to continue.
 
Keesha said:
Yes. I understand it’s safety first which is why I wrote that and that’s it for their own good. It’s just a shame that it’s Halloween has finally ended on a Saturday with a full moon and an extra hour yet they can’t enjoy it.

It makes me wonder if Halloween 👻 Trick or Treating will be something of the past. It makes me wonder if this mask lifestyle will ever end or is this our new norm forever.

I know there are other more important things to think about.
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I doubt that this will be the death knell for Halloween traditions. In 2001 we had very few trick-or-treaters but within a couple of years the numbers bounced back to pre 9/11 levels.

Covid will not rule our behavior forever. Treatments, vaccines, herd immunity, virus morphing - all or some of these will come into play, and our lives will pretty much revert to what they'd been before.

Like Arnold, Halloween will be back.
 
Bonnie said:
So far, it hasn't been cancelled in this part of the country. ,, kids are allowed to go out in their neighborhoods for door to door t or t.

It seems my grandkids have been bucking the system since summer started ... they have soccer games weekly since July, and are now back in the classroom with laptop computers given out by the school. Every student has received one.
If they need to retreat back to online learning at home, then they have everything on their laptops to continue.
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This is great for the kids. I hope they have a blast but stay safe. It’s good to know some kids are participating. The tradition hadn’t died.
 
Keesha said:
Yes. I understand it’s safety first which is why I wrote that and that’s it for their own good. It’s just a shame that it’s Halloween has finally ended on a Saturday with a full moon and an extra hour yet they can’t enjoy it.

It makes me wonder if Halloween 👻 Trick or Treating will be something of the past. It makes me wonder if this mask lifestyle will ever end or is this our new norm forever.

I know there are other more important things to think about.
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I'm sad too Keesha, Halloween is my favorite holiday. Love decorating and seeing everyone's decorations. Seeing the children dressed in their favorite and creative costumes.

My daughter is 27, 4ft tall and mentally age 5. We trick or treat every year.. not this year.

We have to be patient even though it gets harder to do as this virus drags on and on.
 
It is a stupid holiday. I shake my head when the stores load up on millions of tone of candy. It needs a change of venue that does not have kids dreaming of the moment of stuffing pounds of sugar down their throats. Going trick or treating is often cancelled because of the weather so figure something else that is indoors so the little monsters don't pout when it is cancelled.
 
fmdog44 said:
It is a stupid holiday. I shake my head when the stores load up on millions of tone of candy. It needs a change of venue that does not have kids dreaming of the moment of stuffing pounds of sugar down their throats. Going trick or treating is often cancelled because of the weather so figure something else that is indoors so the little monsters don't pout when it is cancelled.
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You didn’t trick or treat? I think I usually made 2 rounds on back to back nights. Just a slight costume change usually worked. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and 3 Musketeers were my favorites. One family used to give out dimes. I was always cheap and looking for money, so I carried change in case he ran out of dimes and only had quarters. (Just kidding. About the quarters, not being cheap.)
 
fmdog44 said:
It is a stupid holiday. I shake my head when the stores load up on millions of tone of candy. It needs a change of venue that does not have kids dreaming of the moment of stuffing pounds of sugar down their throats. Going trick or treating is often cancelled because of the weather so figure something else that is indoors so the little monsters don't pout when it is cancelled.
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Do you support the grinch who stole Christmas too?
Miserable 🤬!
 
The traditional trick or treating has been falling off in this area for years.

Many of the schools have tailgate parties and costume parades for the kids in the school parking lots.

This year one of the companies that normally have a spectacular haunted house has gone to a drive-through option in one of the county parks for a fixed price of $10.00/car.

Even if the traditional door to door trick or treating is prohibited some form of Halloween entertainment for the kids will take place.

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Well, sure doesn't look like Darth Vader (me) and my Stormtrooper (my wife) will be this Halloween. I have a really authentic Vader costume, with all the lights, his voice and a nice Dark Side Lightsaber (all over $800) and my wife has a nice "female" type Stormtrooper outfit.

I wore the complete costume for Halloween 2017, on the front porch area of our apartment in Florida. Numerous kids, who lived in the complex, had their parents take photos of me and the kids. My wife took some as well.
 
@Gary O'. Apparently nobody can enforce no trick or treating. The health advisory board strongly suggests not to do it but is also said that if masks and proper social distancing in place, kids can still go.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2020/9/9/1_5097757.html

We don’t ever get trick or treaters here. I live FAR north of the city.
The houses are too far apart for kids to walk. We’ve only had 3 kids in almost 25 years of being here and that was all from one visit from a man who came up to our door. I’d decorated the end of our long driveway with spiders , webs and skulls while I stood at the front door with bowls full of candy anxious to serve some trick or treaters.
 
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We usually get over 100 trick-or-treaters. Christmas is my favorite holiday and Halloween comes in second.

Guess this year most communities will be a twisted version of Seinfeld's Soup Nazi.
Anyone who rings doorbells that night will be told:
"No Halloween candy for you.
Come back, one year!"
 
Keesha said:
What a shame for all the kids this year. Halloween is cancelled.

This year Halloween is on a Saturday , with a FULL moon 🌕 and the time goes back so they’d get an extra hour to collect treats. 🍭 🍬

There are also no Halloween parties allowed.

I’m really feeling bad for the kids lately. I miss seeing kids out having fun together. Even not hearing kids playing is becoming eery.

It’s an outdoor event. Surely people could collect candy wearing a mask and practicing social distancing. Houses could leave a bowl of candy at the door so the door didn’t have to open and close.

Then again, safety should always come first.

How do you all feel about this?
Could this have been doable with a bit more effort in place or is it just not worth risking?

I hope the parents help do something special for these kids.
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Keesha. Do you know if the ban is provincial wide, or is it just limited to the province of Ontario at this time?
 

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