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NervousNell
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Sorry but the contamination thing is ridiculous. We all touch so many things everyday, kids even more.
We are doing more harm with holing up and not letting our immune system work.
Our immune systems have evolved over thousands of years. 12 months of good hygiene is not going to negatively affect them.
My 6 year old is now religious about washing his hands when getting home from anywhere. How is this a bad thing?
It's not. Good hand hygiene is always a good thing. In fact, I find it odd that it took this pandemic for people to realize that. Perhaps that is why City MD was always packed every time I passed it for years.
But worrying about picking up a candy bar while trick or treating and touching anything is a bit over the top.
Especially if you do have good hand hygiene and habits like you describe
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Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
From a scientific perspective, no, reaching into a bowl of candy isn't really any different than touching an atm or credit card pad at the store.
Surface transmission is very unlikely. However, if a positive child sneezed into their hand, stuck their hand in a bowl and then another child reached in and proceeded to wipe their mouth/nose- that could be problematic. There are very few instances a scenario like that is possible- but ToT is one of them.
We're taking DD ToT, but she can't have any of the collected candy until her hands are scrubbed and I open it for her. I'll bring a few pieces from home in case she wants some while we're out.
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| Posted 10/29/20 2:16 PM |
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MrsO
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
I am putting candy in baggies. The way i look at it - going trick or treating is the same as going to the supermarket. Who know who touched what before you took it off the shelf - just sanitize your hands before you eat :)
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PitterPatter11
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Sorry but the contamination thing is ridiculous. We all touch so many things everyday, kids even more.
We are doing more harm with holing up and not letting our immune system work.
Our immune systems have evolved over thousands of years. 12 months of good hygiene is not going to negatively affect them.
My 6 year old is now religious about washing his hands when getting home from anywhere. How is this a bad thing?
We hope not but do you notice that regular soap and body wash has not flown off the shelves? People are not as clean as they claim to be just because they bought hand soap and sanitizer in bulk.
At my grocery store, regular soap was hard to come by for a long time. Luckily, I had just bought one of those jumbo sized ones right before everything got crazy.
I will be honest and say I only regularly washed my hands after I used the bathroom and before I ate pre-covid. I now wash them immediately when I get home and I have my DH and DS do the same. My son typically does it without prompting.
I am not even a little concerned that my immune system is suddenly going to forget how to make antibodies to protect me.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Sorry but the contamination thing is ridiculous. We all touch so many things everyday, kids even more.
We are doing more harm with holing up and not letting our immune system work.
Our immune systems have evolved over thousands of years. 12 months of good hygiene is not going to negatively affect them.
My 6 year old is now religious about washing his hands when getting home from anywhere. How is this a bad thing?
We hope not but do you notice that regular soap and body wash has not flown off the shelves? People are not as clean as they claim to be just because they bought hand soap and sanitizer in bulk.
At my grocery store, regular soap was hard to come by for a long time. Luckily, I had just bought one of those jumbo sized ones right before everything got crazy.
I will be honest and say I only regularly washed my hands after I used the bathroom and before I ate pre-covid. I now wash them immediately when I get home and I have my DH and DS do the same. My son typically does it without prompting.
I am not even a little concerned that my immune system is suddenly going to forget how to make antibodies to protect me.
There was never a shortage of body wash IME. I always found bar soap also as not everyone in my house likes body wash and prefers the bar.
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| Posted 10/29/20 2:54 PM |
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NervousNell
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Sorry but the contamination thing is ridiculous. We all touch so many things everyday, kids even more.
We are doing more harm with holing up and not letting our immune system work.
Our immune systems have evolved over thousands of years. 12 months of good hygiene is not going to negatively affect them.
My 6 year old is now religious about washing his hands when getting home from anywhere. How is this a bad thing?
We hope not but do you notice that regular soap and body wash has not flown off the shelves? People are not as clean as they claim to be just because they bought hand soap and sanitizer in bulk.
At my grocery store, regular soap was hard to come by for a long time. Luckily, I had just bought one of those jumbo sized ones right before everything got crazy.
I will be honest and say I only regularly washed my hands after I used the bathroom and before I ate pre-covid. I now wash them immediately when I get home and I have my DH and DS do the same. My son typically does it without prompting.
I am not even a little concerned that my immune system is suddenly going to forget how to make antibodies to protect me.
There was never a shortage of body wash IME. I always found bar soap also as not everyone in my house likes body wash and prefers the bar.
I feel like there was just random shortages of everything back then because people were hoarding for the apocalypse like they do any time a storm or anything else is predicted. And that caused supply chain issues.
What was the reason for all the toilet paper shortages? I mean surely people weren't planning to wipe their asses more thoroughly due to Covid.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Sorry but the contamination thing is ridiculous. We all touch so many things everyday, kids even more.
We are doing more harm with holing up and not letting our immune system work.
Our immune systems have evolved over thousands of years. 12 months of good hygiene is not going to negatively affect them.
My 6 year old is now religious about washing his hands when getting home from anywhere. How is this a bad thing?
We hope not but do you notice that regular soap and body wash has not flown off the shelves? People are not as clean as they claim to be just because they bought hand soap and sanitizer in bulk.
At my grocery store, regular soap was hard to come by for a long time. Luckily, I had just bought one of those jumbo sized ones right before everything got crazy.
I will be honest and say I only regularly washed my hands after I used the bathroom and before I ate pre-covid. I now wash them immediately when I get home and I have my DH and DS do the same. My son typically does it without prompting.
I am not even a little concerned that my immune system is suddenly going to forget how to make antibodies to protect me.
There was never a shortage of body wash IME. I always found bar soap also as not everyone in my house likes body wash and prefers the bar.
I feel like there was just random shortages of everything back then because people were hoarding for the apocalypse like they do any time a storm or anything else is predicted. And that caused supply chain issues.
What was the reason for all the toilet paper shortages? I mean surely people weren't planning to wipe their asses more thoroughly due to Covid.
Pure stupidity of people listening to others that they needed to get it because they wouldn't ever be able to leave their homes.
Just like this with Halloween. Kids have been back at school for 2 or more months now and have been fine. We are worrying about going contaminated from a piece of candy that someone else touched but they have touched a million surfaces since March.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Sorry but the contamination thing is ridiculous. We all touch so many things everyday, kids even more.
We are doing more harm with holing up and not letting our immune system work.
Our immune systems have evolved over thousands of years. 12 months of good hygiene is not going to negatively affect them.
My 6 year old is now religious about washing his hands when getting home from anywhere. How is this a bad thing?
We hope not but do you notice that regular soap and body wash has not flown off the shelves? People are not as clean as they claim to be just because they bought hand soap and sanitizer in bulk.
At my grocery store, regular soap was hard to come by for a long time. Luckily, I had just bought one of those jumbo sized ones right before everything got crazy.
I will be honest and say I only regularly washed my hands after I used the bathroom and before I ate pre-covid. I now wash them immediately when I get home and I have my DH and DS do the same. My son typically does it without prompting.
I am not even a little concerned that my immune system is suddenly going to forget how to make antibodies to protect me.
There was never a shortage of body wash IME. I always found bar soap also as not everyone in my house likes body wash and prefers the bar.
I feel like there was just random shortages of everything back then because people were hoarding for the apocalypse like they do any time a storm or anything else is predicted. And that caused supply chain issues.
What was the reason for all the toilet paper shortages? I mean surely people weren't planning to wipe their asses more thoroughly due to Covid.
I literally  at this.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
I was planning to do what I do every year...which is drop two or three pieces of wrapped candy into each bag held out to me...
I would have to touch the candy to put it into any sort of bowl or bag...and I wash my hands like a person should do...so I am not seeing the issue...
Am I missing something here?
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Sash
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Me too
I was actually just having this discussion the other day with my DH and sister. That I still don’t get the whole TP thing in March. The actual reasoning. Lol.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by oldtimerocknroll
I was planning to do what I do every year...which is drop two or three pieces of wrapped candy into each bag held out to me...
I would have to touch the candy to put it into any sort of bowl or bag...and I wash my hands like a person should do...so I am not seeing the issue...
Am I missing something here?
Nope you are not missing anything. All fear mongering and people are falling into this. Just like they are trying to tell us that we can only have 6 people for thanksgiving. Sad that people are going to listen to this and might miss out on seeing family for maybe the last time in their life. The rate is 1.6% today in Suffolk. It was 1.9% the other day.
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NervousNell
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by Sash
Me too
I was actually just having this discussion the other day with my DH and sister. That I still don’t get the whole TP thing in March. The actual reasoning. Lol.
So the other day my DH came home from walking my DD to the bus stop and said to me- oh the people at the bus stop are saying how it's starting to get hard to get paper towels and stuff again.
I told him to stop right there and not feed into it. Because I really feel like it's someone who happens to be in Costco when they are low on something and they run around telling others- OMG THE SKY IS FALLING! I CAN'T FIND TOILET PAPER! And then with social media it spreads all around and now people will start buying it up whenever they see it even if they don't need it, because someone said there is a shortage again. Even if it's not a shortage- just a day where the shelves weren't stocked yet. It's like a vicious cycle. People need to stop telling each other this shiit!
Message edited 10/29/2020 3:41:55 PM.
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JennP
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by Sash
Me too
I was actually just having this discussion the other day with my DH and sister. That I still don’t get the whole TP thing in March. The actual reasoning. Lol.
I always sort of figured that it works like this:
1. Idiots panic and greedy people resell and together they buy a shit ton of the stuff.
2. Normal people, who really don't want to horde but like to be able to wipe their ass, see what is happening and buy a little more than usual.
3. Genuine supply chain issues occur because there are restrictions on moving goods.
All of those combine to cause shortages for months.
But I have no data to back that up lol.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by oldtimerocknroll
I was planning to do what I do every year...which is drop two or three pieces of wrapped candy into each bag held out to me...
I would have to touch the candy to put it into any sort of bowl or bag...and I wash my hands like a person should do...so I am not seeing the issue...
Am I missing something here?
I understand about the touching of candy- what you say makes sense.
As for answering the door, when I open the door, I have 3 kids two feet in front of me yelling "Trick or Treat" I envision the viral load going right in my face  Of course I will be wearing a mask, but that is why I plan to use a table- to put some distance between me and the kids.
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| Posted 10/29/20 3:58 PM |
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
I bought pretzel bags and I'll be putting them directly in the kids trick or treat containers. No children digging around that way. I will encourage my kids to just grab a candy and move on. If there's a particular thing they want I'll just buy it for them later.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by Sash
Me too
I was actually just having this discussion the other day with my DH and sister. That I still don’t get the whole TP thing in March. The actual reasoning. Lol.
So the other day my DH came home from walking my DD to the bus stop and said to me- oh the people at the bus stop are saying how it's starting to get hard to get paper towels and stuff again.
I told him to stop right there and not feed into it. Because I really feel like it's someone who happens to be in Costco when they are low on something and they run around telling others- OMG THE SKY IS FALLING! I CAN'T FIND TOILET PAPER! And then with social media it spreads all around and now people will start buying it up whenever they see it even if they don't need it, because someone said there is a shortage again. Even if it's not a shortage- just a day where the shelves weren't stocked yet. It's like a vicious cycle. People need to stop telling each other this shiit!
B.IN.GO
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Like usual. I got this super cute pumpkin metal container a while ago so the candy will do there as usual. We’ll hand out the candy while we’re home, and then leave it outside when we’re out trick or treating.
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| Posted 10/29/20 5:04 PM |
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
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I plan on doing little goodie bags with candy and setting up a folding table outside our front door.
Same. If I'm home, I will probably sit outside and toss them to the kids because I like seeing the cuteness and creativity.
Same here.
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PhyllisNJoe
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
I just wanted to comment on so many saying it’s no different than touching items in a grocery store or the ATM. It is different. 1. We are adults. And when we touch those things, we aren’t rubbing our eyes, nose and mouth constantly and talking in others faces at those times and 2. Grocery store, ATM and things like that are necessary risks we take daily. trick or treating is not a necessary risk.
So i don’t think the comparison is the same.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by oldtimerocknroll
I was planning to do what I do every year...which is drop two or three pieces of wrapped candy into each bag held out to me...
I would have to touch the candy to put it into any sort of bowl or bag...and I wash my hands like a person should do...so I am not seeing the issue...
Am I missing something here?
I’m guessing those that will be making bags of candy will be wearing gloves when making the bags and when handing them out? 
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by PhyllisNJoe
I just wanted to comment on so many saying it’s no different than touching items in a grocery store or the ATM. It is different. 1. We are adults. And when we touch those things, we aren’t rubbing our eyes, nose and mouth constantly and talking in others faces at those times and 2. Grocery store, ATM and things like that are necessary risks we take daily. trick or treating is not a necessary risk.
So i don’t think the comparison is the same.
Why the assumption that all kids do those things? I honestly think kids are taking this mask thing so much better than adults. The amount of adults who have masks under their nose and some under their chin lately is crazy.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Sorry but the contamination thing is ridiculous. We all touch so many things everyday, kids even more.
We are doing more harm with holing up and not letting our immune system work.
Our immune systems have evolved over thousands of years. 12 months of good hygiene is not going to negatively affect them.
My 6 year old is now religious about washing his hands when getting home from anywhere. How is this a bad thing?
We hope not but do you notice that regular soap and body wash has not flown off the shelves? People are not as clean as they claim to be just because they bought hand soap and sanitizer in bulk.
At my grocery store, regular soap was hard to come by for a long time. Luckily, I had just bought one of those jumbo sized ones right before everything got crazy.
I will be honest and say I only regularly washed my hands after I used the bathroom and before I ate pre-covid. I now wash them immediately when I get home and I have my DH and DS do the same. My son typically does it without prompting.
I am not even a little concerned that my immune system is suddenly going to forget how to make antibodies to protect me.
It’s not about the immune system forgetting how to make antibodies to protect itself, it’s something that will always happen just like breathing or digesting food, our bodies don’t forget to breath when we’re asleep or digest food when we eat. The problem is that our bodies constantly are exposed to thousands and thousands of different types of viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc and the immune system needs to be able to recognize each different kind and act accordingly to what it’s dealing with. This is something that happens every day, and it’s constantly adapting and learning how to fight them even when we don’t manifest symptoms. So depriving the body to be naturally exposed to those microorganisms can delay the immune system on how to act whenever it is indeed facing those microorganisms.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by soontobemommyof2
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PitterPatter11
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Sorry but the contamination thing is ridiculous. We all touch so many things everyday, kids even more.
We are doing more harm with holing up and not letting our immune system work.
Our immune systems have evolved over thousands of years. 12 months of good hygiene is not going to negatively affect them.
My 6 year old is now religious about washing his hands when getting home from anywhere. How is this a bad thing?
We hope not but do you notice that regular soap and body wash has not flown off the shelves? People are not as clean as they claim to be just because they bought hand soap and sanitizer in bulk.
At my grocery store, regular soap was hard to come by for a long time. Luckily, I had just bought one of those jumbo sized ones right before everything got crazy.
I will be honest and say I only regularly washed my hands after I used the bathroom and before I ate pre-covid. I now wash them immediately when I get home and I have my DH and DS do the same. My son typically does it without prompting.
I am not even a little concerned that my immune system is suddenly going to forget how to make antibodies to protect me.
It’s not about the immune system forgetting how to make antibodies to protect itself, it’s something that will always happen just like breathing or digesting food, our bodies don’t forget to breath when we’re asleep or digest food when we eat. The problem is that our bodies constantly are exposed to thousands and thousands of different types of viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc and the immune system needs to be able to recognize each different kind and act accordingly to what it’s dealing with. This is something that happens every day, and it’s constantly adapting and learning how to fight them even when we don’t manifest symptoms. So depriving the body to be naturally exposed to those microorganisms can delay the immune system on how to act whenever it is indeed facing those microorganisms.
Which in turn will make us sick if we are not being exposed to these things.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PhyllisNJoe
I just wanted to comment on so many saying it’s no different than touching items in a grocery store or the ATM. It is different. 1. We are adults. And when we touch those things, we aren’t rubbing our eyes, nose and mouth constantly and talking in others faces at those times and 2. Grocery store, ATM and things like that are necessary risks we take daily. trick or treating is not a necessary risk.
So i don’t think the comparison is the same.
Why the assumption that all kids do those things? I honestly think kids are taking this mask thing so much better than adults. The amount of adults who have masks under their nose and some under their chin lately is crazy.
This isn't the hypothetical diabetic with banana. There is more of a chance that kids would do that than adults. I think we can agree on that.
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Re: Halloween - how are you going to display your candy?
Posted by PhyllisNJoe
Posted by valentinesbaby48
Posted by PhyllisNJoe
I just wanted to comment on so many saying it’s no different than touching items in a grocery store or the ATM. It is different. 1. We are adults. And when we touch those things, we aren’t rubbing our eyes, nose and mouth constantly and talking in others faces at those times and 2. Grocery store, ATM and things like that are necessary risks we take daily. trick or treating is not a necessary risk.
So i don’t think the comparison is the same.
Why the assumption that all kids do those things? I honestly think kids are taking this mask thing so much better than adults. The amount of adults who have masks under their nose and some under their chin lately is crazy.
This isn't the hypothetical diabetic with banana. There is more of a chance that kids would do that than adults. I think we can agree on that.
I don’t think it is right to take another thing away from these kids. Kids are not getting sick nor bringing it home so they are fine to go out and get done candy for a few hours one day a year.
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