Juno News - October 31, 2021


The kids deserve a normal Halloween


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Let's talk about halloween and the government's new rules and guidelines regarding candy and trick or treaters in Canada. I think it's a good thing kids are out there celebrating the night and I hope it's safe for them to do so.

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00:00:00.000 it's quite something that the government thinks it is their role to issue halloween recommendations
00:00:10.100 guidelines how to safely participate in halloween this year guidelines for the kids and how you
00:00:17.020 should be doing the trick-or-treating and guidelines for the households in terms of
00:00:20.160 how you should be policing the lines in front of your house how you should be safely given out the
00:00:26.240 candy but i guess what's also pretty alarming is that there are so many people who were asking in
00:00:30.900 advance will halloween be allowed can we do it what are the rules so i guess i can't really blame
00:00:37.740 government for for issuing these guidelines these statements because a lot of people were asking for
00:00:42.020 them and a lot of people are are seemingly interested in even knowing what government
00:00:46.080 has to say about the matter i think it's pretty ridiculous this year in fact i think it was
00:00:50.220 ridiculous all last year in october 2020 when we were in a worse situation than we are in right
00:00:56.440 now when there were no vaccines available they weren't even really on the horizon people weren't
00:00:59.880 sure when they were going to be approved a very different situation and still i thought halloween
00:01:04.420 did not need to be canceled last year it was a really frustrating thing last year because
00:01:09.580 the kids were already having a lot of things taken away from them they didn't really have a summer
00:01:14.140 there were no sports leagues and so forth last year and i remember thinking of course of course the
00:01:18.720 kids should be able to go trick-or-treating it's an outdoor activity it's windy what gives they're
00:01:25.320 already wearing masks and everything just let the kids have their halloween and where i am in toronto
00:01:30.320 toronto public health said it's not safe and then i got an interesting tip from a very senior source
00:01:35.800 at the city of toronto who said that the chief medical officer eileen davila she did admit on a call
00:01:41.280 with other senior officials that obviously halloween for the kids is safe there's nothing wrong with
00:01:46.740 going trick-or-treating come on i mean outdoor transmission of covet it's not really a thing
00:01:50.660 but out of an abundance of caution and out of fairness and so forth she couldn't very well say
00:01:56.920 that okay adults can't do this or university students shouldn't be having their large indoor
00:02:02.040 halloween party so we'll just say the kids can't do it either because it you know it's not good
00:02:06.420 optics it's not fair to allow one thing and not the other but of course there was never any real
00:02:11.180 reason why halloween shouldn't have been canceled i let my kids go trick-or-treating halloween last
00:02:15.860 year it was like a scene from some john wayne movie it was like high noon or something just a few kids
00:02:20.760 walking down a deserted street as tumbleweeds are blowing and then just you know one or two old
00:02:25.880 people looking out their window there's the kids throwing the candy out on the front lawn it was quite
00:02:31.920 something to see it was sad actually to see because i really felt like the kids had lost so much and
00:02:36.320 they've continued to lose so much and they really deserved to have that evening of fun that kids look
00:02:41.460 forward to every year so i'm glad to see that halloween is going on pretty much all across canada
00:02:46.140 this year a few people are going to not want to give out treats and i think a few people will
00:02:50.220 use covet as an excuse to just be cheap and not give out candy this year of course but by and large
00:02:55.920 it's going to happen and i think that's a great thing but you still got to chuckle at some of the
00:02:59.700 rules some of the guidelines that have been issued saying all right kids must not kids must not
00:03:05.340 shout for treats they must not shout out trick or treat they must say it in more subdued tones
00:03:10.300 hushed tones or the idea that there must not be crowding at the door really who's going to be the
00:03:15.760 hall monitor on that we know what this is like kids they they'll get into a little pack they'll run
00:03:19.660 from one door to the next don't crowd the door really good luck with all of that bottom line i think
00:03:25.260 it's a good thing that kids are out there celebrating the halloween it's going to be a fantastic
00:03:29.360 evening i hope for kids all across canada so happy halloween
00:03:35.340 thank you
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