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.

I am in Central Scotland and we are in tight restrictions - we have been advised no guising (trick or treat). We have also had high winds and heavy rain today so definitely no-one out and about.

We're Tier 1 (for now .....) and in Victorian Terraces near the city centre. Our area usually goes all out for Halloween but nothing tonight at all. One group of boys knocked and I said 'sorry, come back next year'. My kids have been very mature about it. They absolutely love Halloween and I enjoy bumping in to other parents as we wander the local streets but not this year.

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

Same. Tier 1 and not a knock. Makes you wonder why Tier 3 areas are indeed Tier 3.....

Tier 3.

We had a lovely time out tonight. We were out during the announcement.

Its funny because I felt so much safer walking around looking at Halloween decorations and fireworks than I do rammed in a small classroom. full of children.

Am I missing something; if we were giving our own children sweets and within our own household, what is the harm??

Not tier 3 for much longer because we're all going into lockdown now (that's for the smug posters who ask why we wonder why we're in tier 3).

Tier 3 here and we did a pumpkin walk, saw a few others doing the same. Not a single trick or treater even though we had lit pumpkins for other kids doing pumpkin spotting.

We’ve decorated our local park and sent the all kids out to play in it in the dark in their costumes with torches. Hung apples on strings from the monkey bars, hid wrapped sweets on all the climbing frames/ platforms/benches/swings and left them to get on with it. (Well obviously keeping an eye on them from a distance). They had a ball.

How can you get worked up about kids outside knocking on a door, when on Monday all those kids will be locked in a classroom together for 6 hours with no social distancing, no masks, no PPE for the teachers or support staff. They'll be sharing equipment, sharing toilets, sharing snacks etc.

@doctorhamster

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

Snap @doctorhamster exactly the same here in a Teir 2 Loads Fireworks going off

For goodness sake!!! Its outside, it's not hundreds at a rave it's children collecting sweets from outside homes!! So much scare mongery it's getting so boring!!!! The statistics are wrong anyway, and bet my life the deaths are from the normal thousands we lose a week to cancers/heart issues/diabetes etc !!! A friend's son died in a car crash and his death certificate said cause of death Covid!!! Work that one out!!

Tier 3 here and pumpkin spotting. Some have put wrapped sweets out at end of drive. We went in our own household, barely saw other families, washed hands and Dettol sprayed sweet wrappers when we came home. Nobody knocking on any doors or going near other people.

Freek, because they’ve no common sense and judging arses... apparently as they live in tier 1 or 2 that makes those who live in tier 3 whose walking/trick or treating the sole reason that they are responsible for being in a tier 3 zone

Not that the county’s infrastructure, population, equality, economic, social and health-related impacts that the tier zone may have

And I’m not even in a tier 3 zone or my children trick or treating, because we’re isolating due to ds1 testing positive for Covid.

He got Covid at school and his fookwit teacher ignoring a child with clear covid symptoms and just giving the child a class of water .

When ds complained he was given a detention

Tier 2 here. Nobody’s knocked.

@deeplybaffled

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.

We’ve had them here. Lovely idea.

I am in Wales, we have had people walking around the village in family groups only, to look at people’s decorations. No trick or treating, no groups together, it has been really well done, I am happy. Loads of older people in the village so it is great that everyone has been so careful .

Tier 2 here and we walked round our local village giving my sweets to the kids for every pumpkin. There were a few buckets of wrapped sweets which they appreciated for variety.
Weird thing was there was not a single soul out trick or treating and there weren’t even any cars driving around. It felt very eery.

@HaudYerWheeshtBawbag

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.

Surely the difference is teaching your children life “ isn’t’ the same as normal . Not better or worse but that other people’s house/sweets etc aren’t a free fir all. Otherwise if nothing had changed ,why give a shit about SD, masks or handwashing a billion times a day?

We’re in tier 3 and let’s say that lots of locals have been rule breaking so was expecting trick or treaters tonight.
My 9yr old lost interest a couple of years ago anyway and we had decided to get goodies and watch a film, expecting to hear the door constantly.

Not one single knock. I’m actually surprised and pleased to be honest. It’s normally such a huge deal around here. There are lots of fireworks though.

Cant get worked up about it - its an outside activity so vanishingly unlikely to be an infection risk. Wish we had some here, I love Halloween!

Tier 2 here, so far streets empty.

You'd probably feel better if you don't worry about what you cannot control.

No one here in tier 3 - I was quite surprised

Tier 3 here too and there is no one trick or treating. There’s lots of houses decorated for the last 2 nights and families have been going out looking at them all. We went out and saw a few people out - didn’t see anyone knocking on a single door, everyone just going round looking at the decorations

Tier 2 here, London. A few of us arranged a pumpkin trail and those were the majority of houses decorated. Some exchanged sweets but mainly none/parents giving to own DC. There was one hairy moment when we became a swarm of toddlers but for the most part it seemed much less risky that nursery/school/shopping.

I also agree with a PP - if you're a parent with young DC you have 5/6 months of drudgery ahead, in shit weather. Finding small low-risk things to look forward to seems to me to be the right thing to do.