bobmac
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Are you taking part this year?
Trick or treat during the pandemic?
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I've been walking round with a mask and eating sweets for the last six months so no change for me.
SatchFan
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Our street has organised it so there will be no trick or treat but kids will still dress up and walk with mum and dad and get a reward from them for each pumpkin they spot in a window.
jim8flog
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I am sure I have been scaring the local kids for years so they do not ring my door bell.
KenL
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Ban it.
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I will be letting my son round the doors this year, only goes to door that have decorations up and my house will be open to anyone who chaps my door.
trevor
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We’ve got sweets ready in case they come, no idea wether anyone will or not.
HampshireHog
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For the first time since they were old enough my kids are not doing it, we will not be answer the door.
IMO anyone participating this year on either side of the door is reckless.
Not kill joy my kids get to watch a scary ? movie with load of sweets.
IMO anyone participating this year on either side of the door is reckless.
Not kill joy my kids get to watch a scary ? movie with load of sweets.
Bunkermagnet
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Won't be doing it, and never have done it.
We don't answer the door to them.
We don't answer the door to them.
IanM
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No doubt the army of mums in our village are plotting something covid friendly as we speak. Its a thing here for primary school kids mainly. Mind you, Dopeford has cancelled everything till 9th Nov
Orikoru
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We have a bag of sweets that's been sat here a year so they can have them if they knock. To be fair we live down the end of a dead end road and we don't get many trick or treaters anyway. Most years we maybe get one or two. Wouldn't be surprised if we get none this year.
Imurg
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In my opinion, anyone who lets their kids do this at the moment is really not thinking straight.
150k new cases this week says there's not enough people taking this thing seriously enough.
The potential for transmission immense.
150k new cases this week says there's not enough people taking this thing seriously enough.
The potential for transmission immense.
My daughter has spent the last 3 weeks prepping.
She has a schedule so that all her class mates that live locally can text her and come and collect a little package she's made.
She'll leave it outside for them. I was against it at first, but theyre all in a bubble and we won't be giving stuff to anyone else or collecting from anyone.
She has a schedule so that all her class mates that live locally can text her and come and collect a little package she's made.
She'll leave it outside for them. I was against it at first, but theyre all in a bubble and we won't be giving stuff to anyone else or collecting from anyone.
larmen
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Seems Vito go around the country. Our area also does it, treasure hunt they call it here.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Old-fashioned Scottish guising was innocent threat-free fun - but this treat or treat nonsense has opened the door for some pretty nasty behaviour - behaviour that can be frightening for the elderly and lonely.
Another that would like to see it banned from a H&S perspective (ideally permanently). Turning up to a door, getting sweets and all putting their hands in the bowl to pull out the goodies doesn't seem safe and it may not be the kids that get ill but they could easily be spreading it to the parents etc. Just doesn't seem a risk worth taking
Jamesbrown
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Can anyone take the cases seriously when people have been testing fruit, pavement, dog fur, or just dropping it straight in the bottle for it to come back positive?
I’m sure they’ll be some “covid secure” transaction of sweets.
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I know of one person who was booked in for a test and didn’t turn up and got a positive test result a few days later ?
SaintHacker
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I don't know what the protocol is for missed tests, maybe an intentional case of better safe than sorry?
Neilds
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Why do they call it ‘trick or treat’ when everyone always gets a treat? If you say ‘trick’ the kids just look blankly at you
