To put out sweets at Halloween?

[GinAtMerlottes]

I’m in a tier 2.

I don’t really understand why people are saying we can’t do trick or treating? It’s a big thing here and the children will miss it if we don’t go. Obviously we won’t be going around in a big group and will be keeping distance.

I have a wall alongside my drive, and I plan to set out small bags buttons/lollies etc along one by one so children can take as they walk past. I can literally see no problem with this. AIBU?

I wanted to do this but when I thought of the germs going into and out of the bowl, I deemed it unsafe and have decided against it. We’re tier 2 but we live in a small town outside of the city which has much higher cases than here iykwim. Just share a postcode so we’re lumped together.

It’s a big deal where we live and a few houses have still gone to town decorating but I’m assuming nobody will be trick or treating, I hope anyway...

Yep I actually want my child to return to school (once the current self-isolation period is over) At the moment people really need to reduce non-essential contact not increase it!

Yanbu. Risk of spreading it via contact with sweet packets is vanishingly minuscule, assuming you are practising good hygiene - wash your hands throughly before you handle the packets.

The risk isn't the sweets. It's the groups of people all walking around, bumping into each other and stopping for a chat. The pumpkin trail idea is no bloody safer in that regard. Although given its outdoors and interactions are likely to be fleeting, again its really not high risk.

This is not how its spreading. It's the families continuing to visit each other on weekends, the teenagers meeting illicitly, the students going to bars and not being distanced and mingling.

Trick or treating could not be further from my mind, I promise you. We are in a tier three area, the local police have asked people not to, and have said they will be out "helping people to stick to it". The kids haven't even been able to take in sealed mini haribo to school for birthdays this year, in their class bubble where hand washing is enforced, so why would I think it's ok to have strangers riffle through a bowl at my door? I just think everyone needs to make some small sacrifices for the greater good, or this will just go on for ever.

@Vivana

People who work in shops are temp checked everyday and have a covid safe practice in place. Random people giving out sweets have not . Why would you even be encouraging this right now ? I stand by what I said

No there not I worked in retail before I quit and not once was i temp checked. And I know a few others and none are there.

Well they are in my local shop and they are in the supermarkets round here

We are having a Halloween party and won't be answering the door we are tier 2. I had to tell my df who has terminal cancer its not worth the risk answering the door to trick and treaters.Corona has been a rife in the schools and I think people have to understand that they could be potentially knocking of vulnerable peoples doors being asymptomatic, I think people are beyond selfish to go out trick and treating under these circumstances.