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Collected Item: “Golden Gate Area Council Updated COVID-19 Policy”

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Golden Gate Area Council Updated COVID-19 Policy

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This is a document made by Golden Gate Area Council in response to California's reopening on June 15, 2021. It discusses vaccination and testing status requirements for campers, masking requirements indoors, tenting, and dining service, all of which are mentioned in the Leader's Guide. The end of the document implores leaders to make sure their Scouts clean themselves at camp, and concerns about mental health that arise from Scouts not staying long periods of time away from home for over a year. Neither hygiene nor mental health is mentioned in the Leader's Guide, but both are mentioned here.

The document softens some of the COVID restrictions that were planned for camp. The update states that dining halls will be open for normal dine-in meals, overriding the Leader's Guide which stated that some meals may be take-out. Additionally, the update specifies that masks are not required to be worn outdoors. The Leader's Guide said "while at camp each and every camper must wear a face covering over their mouth and nose", not addressing a difference between indoors and outdoors.

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Scout, Scouting, #pandemicsummer, Camp Wolfeboro, reopening, mental health, dining, override, update

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https://scoutingevent.com/Download/02378005/OR/GGAC_Updated_Covid_Policy060162021.pdf

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Golden Gate Area Council

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2021-06-16
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