Halloween is just a few days away but this year Halloween is masked in a pandemic so it will look different, just like almost everything here in 2020.
The scariest goblins this Halloween are real; they’re named coronavirus and COVID-19. And they’ve set the tone for a Halloween dressed up like none before it.
With health and safety orders urging physical distancing and no large gatherings, most if not all the usual Halloween attractions and events in San Diego every year were canceled this year.
But that doesn’t mean that people haven’t come up with ways to carry out at least some Halloween traditions, even if they look a little different this year.
A survey from the National Retail Federation says many families are still planning to do some of the traditional activities but modified a bit.
While the survey says fewer Americans are planning to trick or treat, hand out candy, hold a parties or visit a haunted house this Halloween, more people nationally say they are decorating their home and carving pumpkins and this year, even dressing up their pet in a costume.
And one of the most popular costumes for humans this year is the coronavirus or skeletons with masks.
So while there won’t be a lot of the traditional things going on, people are still planning to enjoy it, even if it means smaller and different ways of doing it.
With all of us having been going through this pandemic for some 8 months now, we certainly can use a diversion from the scariness of the pandemic and just have a little fun.
(Photo c.e. albert, KOGO News)