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CDC's Absurd Trick-or-Treating Guidelines

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He reads CDC Halloween safety guidelines aloud, mocking rules about isolated trick-or-treating, individually bagged candy stations, and mask requirements for costumes.

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  • Tim asks if kids are allowed to trick-or-treat, then says he'd sit down any child who shows up at his house to lecture them about civic duty.
  • The CDC website recommends avoiding direct contact with trick-or-treaters—meaning kids shouldn't go near their friends.
  • Tim questions the CDC's instruction to give out treats outdoors, pointing out that trick-or-treating has always been a doorstep activity and no normal parent invites kids inside.
  • The CDC says to set up a station with individually bagged treats, which Tim dismisses as unworkable because someone will steal them all.
  • Tim mocks the mask requirement for Halloween, joking that costume masks should count and that the CDC then contradicts itself by saying cloth masks are different.
  • The CDC warns that masks should not be worn by children under two or anyone with breathing trouble, which Tim uses to mock the absurdity of allowing unmasked one-year-olds.
  • Tim reads that people must stay six feet away from anyone they don't live with, noting that this describes most people anyway.

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