Today I have a very brief Halloween post before we head into November with more discussion of elections.
Anyway, I don’t know about the rest of you, but my house was pretty busy on Halloween before the pandemic. We never saw hundreds of kids visiting. But usually at least 50 or 60 stopped by for candy.
All that changed in 2020, when no one stopped by. Even last year, no more than 4 or 5 kids in total came around the neighborhood knocking on doors. We live in Iowa City, where people took the pandemic very seriously. In previous posts, I’ve described Iowa City as a liberal bubble and elaborated on some of the details of its activist scene.
To be clear, I’m not complaining about any of that in this post. It’s good we took the pandemic seriously. But all that had the unfortunate side effect of taking away the kids and their costumes on Halloween.
I have to admit – I’m hoping to see the return of the kids and their costumes this year. It’d be nice to get back to handing out candy to 50 or 60 kids each year. Here’s hoping!
