I live in a Tier 3 zone - and idiots are trick or treating!

[PhlegmyHead]

What on Earth are people thinking?!
We've got neighbours either answering doors, we've got other neighbours leaving tubs of sweets on doorsteps - huge, HUGE bunches of people (ie. different households) grouping together walking up and down the street and up and down people's drives, absolutely no social distancing at all.

I hate lockdown as much as the next person, but its shit like this that is why we're facing increased deaths and harsher measures.

We've got 4 pumpkins 🎃 on the drive as the villagers have organised a spot the pumpkin walks, where the parents give them a sweet for each one spotted. Not had a door knock yet but will ignore if I do.

They're outside, I can't get worked up about it when the NHS are forcing staff to work in offices en masse with no covid secure measures, alongside plenty private businesses. There's been numerous threads about this on here. A few trick or treaters are not going to cause a massive outbreak.

We're in tier three and have just been round pumpkin spotting, there was no one else around although it was early. Lots of houses decorated this year so think most people having family party's at home.

All quite in our T3.

I like the Spot the Pumpkin game! That is a good idea indeed

Apart from common sense (which is clearly lacking!) is there anything in Tier 3 restrictions which would actually ban it?

Opening your door and offering a tub of wrapped sweets is not going to make any difference to the spread

I imagine loads of bonfire and fireworks in the next few days before lockdown on Thursday, mumsnet is goimg to be a veritable fest of outrage

No mixing of households in private gardens? That would cover a lot of houses if people were answering the door.
I haven’t put anything out this year as I didn’t want to encourage it. How do you know the sweets are Covid safe etc? Up to the parents to make that decision ultimately, though.
Lots of houses round here decorated the fronts for a Halloween Trail to do with dc while it was light, which is a nice idea.

Tier 1 here- not a peep.

T3 here too.

Plenty of people out despite only a handful of houses having decorations up.

I’ve switched our doorbell off.

@bigchris how do you know this? How do you know it won’t contribute to the spread??

I can’t get worked up about this, no difference to buying in a supermarket than a child being given individually wrapped sweets. No difference to someone buying Items at the supermarket.

They aren’t “idiots” they are trying to bring enjoyment into their children’s lives in an already stressful world.

They are not breaking any rules even if I’m tier 3.

Opening your door and offering a tub of wrapped sweets is not going to make any difference to the spread

HAHAHAHA!!! Unless you’re stretch Armstrong you are not 2 meters away from a child you’ve offered the bowl of sweets to. Nowhere near!

Not to mention lots of grubby little hands (yes I’m a parent too) all delving into the same sweet bowl!!

I wish idiots would refrain from posting their idiotic opinions as though they made a scrap of logical sense!

I think they'd better enjoy it tonight, because it could be total lockdown again at 6pm

We’ve put a pumpkin at the end of our drive with wrapped lollipops stuck in it. I’m not really seeing it as a vast Covid risk to anyone tbh, and nor does it break any rules. Parents are free to quarantine the lollies for as long as they see fit. And it makes the kids happy, both mine and the visitors.

I haven't seen any trick or treaters in our tier 2 area yet. Bloody fireworks going off everywhere though

we're tier three, and lots of our street normally decorate for halloween. Some still have, and there's a bit of a thread on the local FB page about doing a pumpkin trail for the DC to look at, but I thought it might be a bit confusing if we don't want people to knock on, and so haven't decorated. No knocks so far.

@deeplybaffled

That’s what put neighbours have done, some have even tried treats to trees/ fences etc...

No grubby hands and all safe, majority of our neighbours antibacterial before and after the serving of the treats.

I'm glad that there are so many people here who know better than the scientific advisors.

Tier 2 here (though would have been moving to t3 on Monday). I don’t normally decorate for Halloween as we’re not really into it, but local groups have organised a pumpkin trail, and parents can give their own children sweets when they see one, so I put some window stickers up for them. This may possibly encourage some people to knock, so I quarantined a bowl filled with packets of haribo and left them outside next to the door, so anyone who came down the drive wouldn’t need to knock. I used hand sanitiser before and after, so I can’t see that it’s really risky, and I would hope parents will supervise their children’s hand hygiene before they’re allowed to eat any of the sweets anyway.

I'm in a tier 1 area and barely anyone is out, and noone is knocking on doors in my estate. A few of us have put prepacked bags of sweets outside and a few props, I think ive seen 2 kids help themselves.

Tier 1 here and people aren't trick or treating...
Tier 3 you say you are and they are gathering and trick and treating....

There you go then

@Bubbletrouble43

I'm in a tier 1 area and barely anyone is out, and noone is knocking on doors in my estate. A few of us have put prepacked bags of sweets outside and a few props, I think ive seen 2 kids help themselves.

Snap.....and they wonder why tier 3 is tier 3.....

@GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat

Tier 1 here- not a peep.

I wonder just what it is about tier 3....