To the Editor:“Summer Camps Close or Prepare for ‘Bubble,’ Putting Parents in Bind” (news article, May 23) outlines the difficulty camps and parents face without a consistent policy for opening. Camp is critical to a child’s well-being, and the need for recreation, exercise and socialization is even more critical after months of lockdown and social isolation. Overnight camp may be a safer option for New York’s kids. There are certainly reasons to be cautious about the well-being of our kids in the Covid world, but summer camps pose no greater risk than keeping them confined to the eye of the storm. If it can be deemed important that we have restaurants, bowling and beaches available as part of a normal healthy lifestyle, it’s doubly important that our children have summer camp options available so that they, too, can return to a semblance of normalcy.

Source: New York Times June 07, 2020 15:56 UTC