[Farm93]

Seems easy enough to imagine that during contact tracing health care officials discovered Halloween activities were a new variable.   Why must some Americans immediately assume any comment from any public health official is a lie?   Sigh...

My neighbors converted their backyard into a gathering of ~20 adults.   Crazy, IMHO, but I am sure they felt confident it would be fine since they were outside.  There was a lot of that going around in late October as I recall.   Everything was probably OK if you are outdoors, or if contact is less than 15 minutes, or whatever.   Loads of ways for people to then imagine an outdoor street festival or party might be safe enough given the messaging some politicians without science or medical training were dishing out at that time.

However, if Halloween caused any uptake at all then Thanksgiving and Christmas will create a mountain of cases across the USA.  

For reasons I don't understand, Americans seem determined to have Thanksgiving and Christmas activities with families. Our most vulnerable Americans are so close to making it to a vaccine, and it would be tragic for them to have sacrificed for 10 months only to get COVID mere weeks before they would be eligible for a vaccine.

[Farm93]

Seems easy enough to imagine that during contact tracing health care officials discovered Halloween activities were a new variable.   Why must some Americans immediately assume any comment from any public health official is a lie?   Sigh...

My neighbors converted their backyard into a gathering of ~20 adults.   Crazy, IMHO, but I am sure they felt confident it would be fine since they were outside.  There was a lot of that going around in late October as I recall.   Everything was probably OK if you are outdoors, or if contact is less than 15 minutes, or whatever.   Loads of ways for people to then imagine an outdoor street festival or party might be safe enough given the messaging some politicians without science or medical training were dishing out at that time.

However, if Halloween caused any uptake at all then Thanksgiving and Christmas will create a mountain of cases across the USA.  

For reasons I don't understand, Americans seem determined to have Thanksgiving and Christmas activities with families. Our most vulnerable Americans are so close to making it to a vaccine, and it would be tragic for them to have sacrificed for 10 months only to get COVID mere weeks before they would be eligible for a vaccine.