Spooky season may have arrived, but thanks to the pandemic, many of Halloween’s most time-honored traditions are off limits this year, from crowded costume parties to screaming in terror inside haunted houses, according to a COVID-19 guide to upcoming holidays from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But what about trick-or-treating, objectively the most vital component of our kiddified, commercialized, modern-day interpretation of All Hallows’ Eve? Unfortunately, the CDC advises against the “higher risk” activity of conventional door-to-door trick-or-treating,