COVID-19 puts a damper on Memorial Day beach reopenings

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COVID-19 puts a damper on Memorial Day beach reopenings
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Police and other security will be out on the sand making sure people keep 6 feet apart, and lifeguards will blow the whistle on anyone who does not follow the new rules.

“A trip to the beach is a treasured pastime for New Jerseyans on Memorial Day weekend, just as it is for residents in our neighboring states,” Murphy said. “By aligning our social distancing policies for beaches, we can bring some semblance of a ‘new normal’ to our region ahead of the first weekend of the summer season.”People queue to go to the Long Branch beach on the first day that New Jersey beaches were reopened ahead of the Memorial Day weekend on Friday.

Stewart Farrell, director of Stockton University’s Coastal Research Center in South Jersey, said Murphy and the governors of the other New England and Mid-Atlantic states appear to be working in tandem and not taking their cues from governors like DeSantis or Brian Kemp in Georgia, who reopened their beaches earlier.

Some towns have hired what Farrell called “insta-cops” who will be equipped with badges and radios to reinforce social distancing rules by “eliciting cooperation” from beachgoers. In Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan left it up to the beach towns to decide when to reopen, and tourist mecca Ocean City did so on May 10. But Hogan warned strict social distancing is mandatory., all of which will be open starting Saturday. But there's a catch: Delaware’s mandatory 14-day quarantine for out-of-state visitors and its ban on short-term rentals remains in effect through May 31. So no beach for you unless you’re a local or have already been in the state for two weeks.

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