Would you let your child go trick or treating with covid out there?

NO WAY!!!!! Parents need to use their heads. But some of them have no brains.

Probably, as it is outside, contact is controlled and brief, and the kids love it.
Mask with the costume, hand sanitizer with me.

Only in a hermetically sealed plague doctor costume.

I agree with @canidmajor.

Fortunately, for me, my daughter is 13 and the past two years she hasn’t wanted to go trick or treating. She thinks it’s more fun to stay home and see the kids that come to the door.

Yeah, I would. Sanitizer would be in tow, but trick or treat seems fairly low risk to me. Maybe with little little ones who would struggle not to be constantly touching their face/nose/mouth I might hesitate, but even then I think I’d just make sure they know to hold out their bucket/bag and not take things by hand.

For those that say yes, are you going to wipe down all the candy they bring home? That would suck.

@anniereborn: I don’t wipe down my groceries or my mail.

I think it is low risk also.

I would knock with my foot if the person wasn’t at the door waiting. Everyone with masks on.

I’d bring along hand sanitizer.

I would probably only bother with kids aged 5–10. Kids who actually know what is going on and who remember and would miss trick or treating.

I would just let the candy sit for 3–4 days like I do all my pantry items, I don’t wipe them down. Enough added chemicals going on right now. I do wipe down packaged frozen and refrigerator foods. Fresh produce I rinse off well, and I don’t usually eat it for a day unless I am cooking it, then I don’t worry.

@anniereborn, like @jca2, I don’t wipe down everything, there has been a lot of study done on that stuff, it is not like the beginning where we thought we had to worry about every surface all the time.
Also, we would only be trick-or-treating in our little neighborhood, where I am familiar with everyone and their habits.

My daughter is in her 30s, now, so it isn’t an issue for us, but I took care when she was little, I don’t imagine I would be less vigilant assessing the difficulties and concerns now.

Yes, but all the candy would be dropped in the barrel on the way home and stealthily replaced by candy I purchased and sanitized in advance. Warning: This only works with really little kids.

It true we don’t wipe down all the mail but after I deal with the mail I clean my hands and whatever surface it was on. And same for groceries. I wash my veggies and fruits like I always did before covid and the rest of the food gets cooked well. And I always wash my hands before I eat. As a matter of fact between cleaning dishes and pots and pans and surfaces to prepare my food and washing my veggies and fruits, I must wash my hands over 10 times at least before I eat something. It wouldn’t be the same with kids candies though. You touch the wrapper to open the candy and then pick it out with your fingers. The kid isn’t going to open the package and gently put it on a plate without letting the wrapper touch the candy and then wash their hands and then pick it up with their fingers. Only way its to wipe each candy that is wrapped down first.

But honestly, I always too many weirdos out there. In the past, you had to worry about tainted candy, and now you have people coughing or spitting on people for wearing masks. If I had little kids today, they would not go out on Halloween. Too many freaks and malicious people in the world.

Absolutely not!!!

Have their costumes be hazmat suits and plague doctor outfits with protective masks.

Darth Vader would be good too.

No. And if any do come, I most likely won’t pass out any candy this year. I don’t want to be blamed if someone thought my candy was contaminated by the virus. Surprised they even have the candy bags for Halloween in the stores this year, but no not really.