Who Needs Halloween?

Faulconer: “First, there’s the matter of Covid transmission via Snickers, which is terrifying enough. But really: 2020 ought to make you question your whole attachment to a holiday that glorifies fear. Fear is terrible: it’s paralyzing, polarizing, incendiary, irrational — everything awful about the human experience, basically. Look at this year’s most popular masks, according to scream zone.com: covid zombie Trump, regular zombie Biden, violent left-wing Antifa radical, violent right-wing Q-Anon radical, global pandemic, local wildfire. Take your pick, but ask yourself, do you really need to celebrate scary stuff this year?