I’m just trying to get a feel to see if any councils have canceled their summer camp programs yet. I’m hoping it doesn’t last that long to where camps can’t open.
I did the other post about high adventure, but I’m wondering overall summer camp programs.
Camps have closed for the summer due to swine flu or polio and have come back the next summer.
Total infections and deaths were far fewer than covid-19, but children were more susceptible to polio though adults would contract it too. Some kids spent years in iron lungs, the ventilators of back in the day. A few used leg braces or wheelchairs for life.
The threat lasted for decades before vaccines were developed. Some of us grey beards have a round polio vaccination scar, the mark o