"Sleepaway camps will not be allowed to operate in New York this summer, Commissioner of Health Dr. Howard Zucker said Friday, citing the risks of COVID-19 and the difficulty in enforcing social distancing and mask use.
Parents and camp operators had been waiting for weeks on the decision, which follows an early June order allowing day camps to open later this month. But New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo repeatedly said he considered sleepaway camps a very different matter, often adding that he would not let his own children go to one."
What is the problem? Open the camps, spray paint the buildings with "Black Lives Matter" and other slogans, vandalize some of the property, put up signs with pictures of George Floyd, call it a "summer camp protest" and you are good to go!!!
Proof positive:
"As thousands of people poured into the streets around the country to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, a microscopic menace was almost certainly there too, eager to propagate and spread through the jostling and shouting crowds that gathered for hours on end, day after day.
It’s a scenario that would seemingly give health officials trying to quell the worst pandemic in a century heartburn and distress. But in fact, a sizable contingent of medical professionals across the country have defended — and even encouraged — the enormous gatherings as a vital response to systemic racial disparities and police brutality in America.
Dr. Mark Shrime, a surgeon and professor at Harvard Medical School who founded the Center for Global Surgery Evaluations, told The Denver Post that racism is a pandemic in its own right.
“The role of professionals in medicine and public health is to focus on health and equity, in all its forms,” he said. “The world currently grapples with two pandemics: that of COVID-19 and that of structural racism. Both pandemics are lethal, and both disproportionately affect black Americans.
“To pretend that public health professionals are allowed to deal with one and not the other is misguided. It is to claim, incorrectly, that only one has an impact on health.”
A group of nearly 1,300 health professionals from across the country — including a handful from Colorado — recently signed an open letter that praised the protesters of the last couple of weeks for calling attention “to the pervasive lethal force of white supremacy.” The protests began as a response to the death of Floyd, a black man, after a white police officer pressed his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes, and have grown to include the deaths of other black people at police hands around the country.
“… We do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission,” the letter states. “We support them as vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of Black people in the United States.”
Opening summer camps is a public health concern!!!
Not to mention the mental health of the parents who need a break from their kids and kids who need a break from their parents. וד"ל.
Please forward this to the Governor.
