I am sure you are right, but every Halloween there are warnings on nearly every TV station with “safety tips”. That is on local news (which I still watch) since I haven’t watched in years. Interesting side note, went to the grocery store yesterday evening (a little past 19:00 hrs.) in a small town of around 6.000 people and saw three houses that appeared to have “trick or treaters” and went by the local high school, heavy traffic and people parking, when “game night” is normally Friday night. Don’t know what was going on but thought I had missed a day for a moment.
There’s also warning on gas pumps not to use your cellphone while your pumping or you’ll start a fire even though it’s been proven that it’s the getting in and out of your car that crates the static buildup that makes the spark that makes the fire, not your phone. There’s good money keeping people scared, for one thing it helps make sure people buy pre-packaged high profit margin candy rather than cheaper stuff like fruit. It also helps keep distrust high, media and government both like it when neighbors don’t trust each other, keeps them from talking and finding out they don’t need the media or government.