How to turn off time-limited events

Yeah, it looks like EA's policy is that you either start up a separate save to work through all these events without ruining your usual saves, or just stop playing the game at all for several weeks, however many times a year. No respect for their customers maybe having past trauma - and who doesn't have trauma these days? - or just not wanting to have this succession of very structured events forced into our private sandboxes.

But EA already specifically told us it despises people who play single-player games, because apparently if you don't want to play online games and get sexually harassed by random strangers, that makes you someone to milk for cash but also treat like dirt.