Welcome to a Summer that is Not Remotely Fun at Safe Distance Summer Camp

Jeremy Blachman
5 min readMay 27, 2020
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

Boys and Girls,

We know that lots of summer camps have decided to shut down for the summer, but NOT US! We are going to have an amazing summer, filled with fun, no-touching friendship, certain pre-approved sports-related activities, and regular nasal swabbing!

Have you ever had a nasal swabbing while jumping on our state-of-the-art water trampoline, overlooking our beautiful 50-acre campus? Well, you won’t, because the water trampoline is going to be our new lakeside staging area for campers and staff who need to be evacuated to nearby medical facilities — but almost everything else is going to be just like you remember it from last summer, and it’s going to be a blast.

Remember the hand sanitizer dispensers in every cabin? Okay, those are new, too. But almost everything else — just like last year — including sports, art, and our exciting camp trips. Maybe not the trips, fine. But we’ve got sports. Like everyone’s favorite… reading alone!

Or maybe you’d like to try bring-your-own bows archery. You have your own bows, don’t you? We’d give you some, but CDC guidelines say that we can’t share supplies… so you’re just going to have to get creative. Maybe you could make your own bows! We have sticks! We have rocks! And we’ve disinfected every last…

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