Commissioner of Health : No Overnight Summer Camps For Kids In NY This Year

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NEW YORK (VINnews) – New York state’s health commissioner says overnight summer camps will not be allowed to operate over coronavirus concerns.

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Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said Friday that it’s too difficult to manage the risks in overnight camps and maintain practices like social distancing and mask wearing.

The state had previously decided that summer day camps would be allowed to reopen on June 29 with regulations about capacity and health practices.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said 42 people had died from coronavirus on Thursday.


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Yankel der ganif
Yankel der ganif
3 years ago

This is the right decision.
How many unserrer yidden need to be lost before we begin to take it seriously enough to realize that we can and will manage without summer camps and bungalow colonies?

Be a machmir on pikuach nefesh and a maikal on comfort and convenience.

KidsLivesMatter
KidsLivesMatter
3 years ago

Keep children home next to you in theses uncertain times. People were teargassed in Washington by the POLICE. No responsible parent will let his kids in a sleep-away camp or Streets. Do you want your Kids tear gassed or worse cholile. If you think that the Police in these hektowns where sleep-away-camps are is better than the NY Police just think again or ask Rubashkin who was jailed for hiring illegals (Every single camp does) or the chassidic family who was held by gunpoint for speeding in New Hampshire.

Frustrated at the hypocrisy!!
Frustrated at the hypocrisy!!
3 years ago

This is nerve!! Is like to see proof of “data and science”!! I dont believe other states would open if there was any. We need to organize all jewish people for a mass protest in manhattan for parents and children alike. Its obviously the only language they understand!! Jewish kids lives matter!!

Kids for Justice
Kids for Justice
3 years ago

Sounds intelligent but if you can’t manage resign.

Qoute:
“Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said Friday that it’s too difficult to manage”

Ralph
Ralph
3 years ago

The damn liberals won’t be happy till the whole country is destroyed !!!!

stevec
stevec
3 years ago

Unfortunately Jewish communities in the New York area have proven themselves to not be serious when it comes to social distancing. Sadly the state could not trust us to open camps in a safe manner. The state knew that whatever rules and regulations they would have issued would have been ignored by a sizable portion of our community. We have no one to blame other than our own bad behavior.

Safety and caution first!
Safety and caution first!
3 years ago

I agree, I was so nervous about sending my kids. I breathed a sigh of relief that they are being cautious. Theres no way to keep camp a bubble (think er trips, deliveries, cleaning staff) and it’s time we put our childrens safety above our needs to have them out. Let’s enjoy parenting our kids!
Thank you Governor for doing the right thing and not caving to pressure!

Ayin tachas ayin
Ayin tachas ayin
3 years ago

Here you have it all you “Dina D’Malchusa Dina” people and Mosrim. Government definitely has our best interest and we must obey them or else you’re a Rodef…

You reap what you sow.

Don’t forget to keep your masks on in the sweltering heat. Good for you.

Educated Boro park
Educated Boro park
3 years ago

This is great news. Many families don’t have the money now for camps. They must be relieved.

Liam K. Nuj
Liam K. Nuj
3 years ago

One of the most important aspects of being a leader is the ability to foresee the unintended consequences. And here is where Governor Cuomo fails miserably.
Now, with the ban on overnight camps, many of these camps will open as “day camps”. This means that THOUSANDS of these very same kids that would have been, in effect, quarantined in an overnight camp, will now be traveling to and from the very same camp.
Every. Single. Day.
Some people, myself included, who were planning on staying in the city, are now looking to be upstate for the summer, as that is the only way their children can be part of these new “day camps”. So, thanks to the governor, THOUSANDS more people will now be traipsing around upstate. Unintended consequences.
What. A. Failure.

Coward!
Coward!
3 years ago

Man up and say it yourself Cuomo, dont hide behind some so called health expert(who’m we’ve learned to really trust these days…)

5TResident
5TResident
3 years ago

I’m sure some people at VIN will accuse the State of being anti-Semitic because of this. Keep in mind that all sleep away camps are prohibited. That includes Christian religious camps and non-denominational camps. All means all. Plenty of kids outside the frum community are disappointed too.

Triumphinwhitehouse
Triumphinwhitehouse
3 years ago

Thanks aguda and in particular abe eidner for pushing this guy on us

Antifa follower
Antifa follower
3 years ago

The Governor is an evil wicked man. He is a lowlife anti semitic dog.

Stay strong
Stay strong
3 years ago

Unfortunately, the answer to all of your questions is “no”. As you see from many of the above posted comments, the mosrim and misyavnim were unsuccessful in their attempted lifetime ban from Shuls, Yeshivos, Chadorim, etc… They are all opening up, legal or not. Now they’ve directed their hatred towards the children’s sleepaway camps. Their desire doesn’t come from “concern”. It comes from hatred towards Frum Charedie families that were bentched with large mishpachos kn”h. The evilness of the misyavnim raises its ugly head in every generation. They are constantly out to uproot yahadus from kllal yisroel r”l. Most of them are shoneh upirush, who in order to massage their guilt for abandoning the Aibishter, beat the Frum tzibbur whenever they get the opportunity. Who do you think the worst kappos were during the holocaust? Yup, those that went off the derech. During our long and bitter galus, this is nothing new.