Posted on 05/25/2021 12:38:38 PM PDT by Mount Athos
With summer coming and COVID-19 vaccines being deemed safe for children as young as 12, some camps are talking about the possibility of a mask-free summer for vaccinated campers. But one Jewish camp being planned for the summer is taking a different approach: barring any vaccinated camper or staff from attending at all.
Advertisements for Camp Hikon, planned for upstate New York, have recently appeared on email listservs popular in the Orthodox Jewish community. The camp’s announcement also comes as posters encouraging people not to get the COVID-19 vaccines appeared in Midwood, Brooklyn.
“We regret that we will be unable to accept campers or counselors who have already received any of these injections,” according to the website.
“Many, many Rabbonim who have thoroughly researched the COVID vaccine are urgently saying NOT to take it,” one flyer read, using the Yiddish word for rabbis.
According to COVID vaccination data from the New York City Department of Health, only 18% of residents in Borough Park are fully vaccinated with 28% partially vaccinated.
Masks will not be encouraged at the camp; as to how the camp would fight the spread of COVID-19, campers would be treated “with an abundance of vitamin D and other prophylaxis,” according to the website.
The camp appears to combine survivalist training with Torah study. The primary goal of the camp, Schwartz said, is to prepare campers for a future in which political instability, economic instability and unusual weather events could create supply chain issues that would interfere with everyday life. Campers will build their own shelters, according to the website.
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Ping.
This camp is the exact opposite of that. Good for them.
Wow… could be like a good old-fashion Chickenpox party. Waive camp fees for any camper showing up testing positive. Herd immunity beckons.
I hope they are on the lookout for deer ticks.
They are BAD this year.
The attendees are at more risk from Lyme than COVID.
Wonder what they’ll name the camp; fenced?
Are gophers kosher?
I’ve noticed the outright demonization of conservative Christians and Jews but not a peep about Louis Farakhan telling blacks not to get the vaccine.
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