Trick-or-Treat 2020: Only a third of students going
October 27, 2020
Only a fraction of East students will be trick-or-treating this Halloween.
According to the dph.illinois.gov, this year, trick-or-treating won’t be the same as past Halloweens. With Covid-19, the safety of trick-or-treating was questioned. Until now, people weren’t so happy about the idea of Halloween being cancelled. Now, the IDPH has informed everyone that trick or treating is going to happen. However, people must only go out with family household members and if their costume can’t cooperate with a facemask, then they must pick another costume. In a random survey of 92 Morton East Students, 35 are still going to go trick-or-treating this year.
“I don’t think trick or treating will be responsible for an increase. I think cases will increase because of people gathering in large crowds indoors,“ Morton East painting teacher Lisa Dure said.
Although people might get some crowded spots, Halloween in 2020 won’t be having people together in large groups.
“Unfortunately, I do think the cases of Covid-19 will rises, just as cases tend to rise after any large social gathering, people let their guard down and forget about safety precautions,” Morton East drawing teacher Teresa Cantero said.
But yet again, we live in a world where people think if you feel normal with no symptoms. You’re not sick even though the virus can be spread without any sick symptoms.
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Bianca Sotelo • Nov 4, 2020 at 8:37 pm
(Judge) maybe try rereading the article, I noticed a grammar error but other than that you did a good job. You do have a point on how people think if you are feelings normal with no symptoms, then they’re fine and covid-19 free but that’s not the case. Since covid is known for not having symptom’s for some people, I feel like if you were out in a big group to take safety precautions and get tested, for the safety of the people and yourself.
Reporter • Nov 4, 2020 at 2:59 pm
You did a good job on elaborating how different Halloween was this year and showing what the guidelines were. I think people are very ignorant when it comes to being asymptomatic and they should be more careful as you said that the virus will still spread without symptoms. Another thing that would’ve made this article good was getting the opinion of some students who were going out to trick or treat as well!