Happy Halloween! Let's celebrate (safely)

Happy Halloween! Let's celebrate (safely)

A very spooky, scary, safe Halloween to each and every one of you. 

Especially because I work in the news media and write about the pandemic (as much as this newsletter counts for that), I feel like I’ve been talking about how to have an alternate Halloween instead of, you know, enjoying any of those ideas I’ve shared with you all, my co-workers and my friends and family. 

So today, armed with the knowledge of what is safe and what isn’t, I’m going to enjoy Halloween. We’re going to carve pumpkins. I might just watch “Hubie Halloween” on Netflix. I don’t have a costume, but I do have an orange shirt. The less I think about the fact that I could be doing something else, the more I’m going to enjoy what I am doing in the moment. I hope you all do the same today. STORY FROM PURINA PRO PLAN LIVECLEARThis immunologist is tackling cat allergens

Today’s socially distanced candy hacks

The other day I told my husband and my in-laws that maybe we could fashion some kind of candy zip line to deliver the goodies to any socially distant trick-or-treaters that stop by our house, and apparently I was not the only person thinking big. 

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance maintains that traditional trick or treating is a high risk activity — one that should be avoided to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. “One-way trick-or-treating,” however, is suggested as a safer alternative.’An accessible home makes life easier’ for a para athlete and his partnerSponsored by Rocket Mortgage®

The CDC identifies “one-way trick-or-tricking” as an activity with moderate risk. If homes choose to participate, individually-wrapped goodie bags prepared with clean hands and “lined up for families to grab and go while continuing to social distance (such as at the end of a driveway or at the edge of a yard)” are encouraged.

Across the country, people are getting creative — building unique gadgets to hand out candy in a fun, but COVID-cautious way. Some of the ideas include:

Candy Catapult

Barrington, Rhode Island mom Lindsey Hingorany takes no credit for the building of this candy catapult that her husband and sons erected for Halloween visitors.

Barrington, Rhode Island mom Lindsey Hingorany takes no credit for the building of this candy catapult that her husband and sons erected for Halloween visitors.  THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL / DAVID DELPOIO

Candy Chute

Heather Schrey, of Levittown, Penn.,  gets ready for Halloween during the COVID-19 pandemic, by testing the chute that candy, and ghost pops will slide through for the trick or treaters on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020.

Heather Schrey, of Levittown, Penn., gets ready for Halloween during the COVID-19 pandemic, by testing the chute that candy, and ghost pops will slide … Show more  NANCY ROKOS

Candy Garden

Lynn Rutecki and son, Jake, are planting a candy garden to match their Halloween costume theme of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory outside their Middletown, Penn. home.

Lynn Rutecki and son, Jake, are planting a candy garden to match their Halloween costume theme of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory.

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