NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Jewish day camp has shut down due to 2 people in the camp testing positive for COVID-19.
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Camp Bnos, located on Ferndale Loomis Road in Liberty normally operates as a sleepaway camp, but was operating as a daycamp this summer due to the pandemic restrictions.
In a letter sent by the camp to other camp operators, Camp Bnos confirmed that the day camp will be shutting down 2 days early, due to 2 positive cases of COVID-19. It was not immediately clear if the patients who tested positive were adults or children.
The decision to close the camp came after they consulted with medical professionals and their rabbinic leadership. The camp is communicating with the Health Department as well.
According to the camp, all those who may have been exposed to the patients have been sent home and will be entering a 14-day quarantine.
As the summer draws on, the camp is yet to make a decision about opening second half. The camp wrote that they are “working to make that determination as quickly as we can.” The decison will be shared with the community as soon as that determination is reached.
I guess this is no surprise.
Day camp, by definition, means that the campers (and maybe staff?) go back and forth every day between home/camp. It is therefore not so surprising that 2 people caught the virus (even if they were tested before camp started) and it doesn’t mean that the camp could have prevented it. It sounds like they took responsible steps once they identified the cases. It would be more surprising if this happened in a sleepaway camp where everyone remains on grounds the whole time.
Please have those 2 retested to make sure it’s not a false positive. There are many False Positives!!!!!!!!!!! These days. I’m talking first hand!!
This is fake news camp bnos will be open for second trip as originally planned
If the Governor would have just allowed the camp to operate as normal, but restrict entry & exit from the campus, I’m sure this could have been avoided.
Currently, they operate as a day camp, so that all staff & campers (and probably service people too) come and go every day, interacting with many other people each day. A regular sleep away camp could have much more control of who & what comes & goes from the campus.
No outbreak in camps? Are you kidding? Camps throughout the USA havr closed due to Deafly Virus. Youth illness up 25% in Florida. Why deny what is happening? Google camp closings. Maybe denying reality is a way to defend the Orange Yutz’ failure and bumbling response to the epidemic. ONLY 150,000 DEAD IN 4 MONTHS!
This is why President Wanna Be Cuomo is so wrong!
Day camps have much less control because the kids go home at night; full day camps keep the kids 24/7 so they can’t catch the virus, nursing home killer Cuomo won’t allow full time camps, but only allows day camps which are dangerous due to lack of control. Guess, since he so successfully killed thousand of elderly, he wants to see how many kids he can target.
If they would have been a sleep away camp, without going home, they would not have come in contact with others outside their protective camp bubble. Shout out to Governor Cuomo for your stupidity!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t trust our leader! This is proof.
Arch you are a fool and every time you talk it only deepens your stupidity. These young women brought it into the camp
And possibly infected many more
A counselor went to a vort and came back sick, this is NOT from March.
So who’s going to win colorwar this year? Who?
I know the family, they went to a vort in New Jersey to a community who has a fresh new outbreak, 11 high school girls all tested positive….their camp also closed….dont be complacent…this disease is up & running
Don’t go to vorts anywhere , just watch the simcha thru zoom, you’ll thank yourselves and myself later.
The Trump virus is still spreading despite Archy’s denials
My daughter is in a sleep away camp. They all were tested before they left and NO ONE may enter or leave the camp! MY daughter is living it up there!! I am so happy for her! And nobody is b”h sick there!! PLEASE don’t say the sleep away camps are infected! Its only the day camps, where kids go home each night that can bring the virus in… Use your senses!! Cuomo just made it worse by allowing only day camps!!
You are all fooling yourselves if you believe sleep away camps are some form of protective bubble. Deliveries happen daily, people go off site daily. B’h only 1% of people in NY are testing positive for the virus so the odds of one of those delivery people or those who go off grounds being exposed or exposing anyone are small. Camps can say what they want, they are not on “lockdown” and are fooling noone.
I never post on this site, but I read it every day. I love reading Archy. He gives me a great big belly laugh, and his being consistently wrong, never in doubt, and proud of it, fills me with pride for being OTD! Deal with him, boys and girls, he’s all YOURS!
#TeamArchy
camps should not be a problem to operate just like the mets and yankees can play baseball together with other teams just minus the fans in the stands .