Summer camp in a time of pandemic: A 'large bubble' with pricey, private COVID-19 tests

His proposal, sent this week to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, follows an earlier failed pitch by a coalition of camps to open with restrictions guided by public health officials, including a prior two weeks of self-isolation, and a COVID-19 test in the week or so before attending.

Once accepted into the bubble of the camp’s lakeside property, campers and staff would not be allowed to leave and return, and would adjust activities to support social distancing. Mandell said cabins would be reduced from 16 campers to 8 or 10, with two bathrooms, and would not interact with other cabins. Dining would be distanced and often outdoors, with campers served at a “no touch buffet,” and cleaning stepped up.

But the proposal also raises the trickier political question of why, in a time of emergency social solidarity, the ability to pay for expensive private COVID-19 testing should determine who is allowed to have a normal summer of swimming and canoeing. If every Ontario child is making sacrifices, why should rich kids be the first to catch a break?

She also used to work in the emergency room in Haliburton, Ont., where sick and injured campers end up, with the normal array of appendicitis, broken arms, nails in feet from old docks, fish hooks in skin, fevers, strep throat, gastroenteritis. Her view is that the COVID-19 risk can be managed by Camp Timberlane’s proposal, and should be.

She agreed that, if camps are to open, it should be done with an eye to equity, so as to not benefit only those of higher socioeconomic status, but this need not be an obstacle in a province where equitable camp access has always been a philanthropic priority.

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