Rather, what people have done has largely followed along the lines of a deferral —I°]] not go to
the doctor because (a) I’m too scared to go because of what they say about COVID-19, or (b)I
refuse to be a party to this insanity and will therefore defer my scheduled appointment until the
world has returned to normal.
As the year progresses, we will indeed see a 2™ bump of mortality. However, that second bump
will be skewed towards cancer deaths, heart disease-related deaths, and other entirely
preventable deaths. This is a direct consequence of your actions.
Conclusion
I want to draw your attention to the fact that the city of Nashua deployed a field hospital in the
Nashua South High School. It was never used. In fact, SNH Medical Center never even came
close to approaching capacity of its 160 hospital beds. Similarly, St. Joseph’s medical center
never came close to its capacity of 206 beds. The same can be said for Eliot Hospital’s 296 beds
and Catholic Medical Center’s 261 beds. Those four hospitals — and there are 26 hospitals in
New Hampshire — have a total of 923 beds. As of September 13, 2020, the state of New
Hampshire has had a total of 721 hospitalizations for COVID-19 since March. Right now, there
are 7 total hospitalizations.
The median age of death from COVID-19 is 82-84, depending upon which state you are in.
Regarding the city of Nashua, 35 of the 38 total deaths have occurred in long term care facilities
— see https://www.nh. goy/covid19/dashboard/summary.htm. Meanwhile, on average, the state of
New Hampshire sees some 2,700 deaths from cancer, 2,700 deaths from heart disease, 1,000
deaths from accidents, some 450 deaths from drug overdoses, 340 deaths from diabetes and more
than 260 from suicide.
We do not ban sugary drinks. We don’t ban cigarettes, we do not caution people to not consume
copious quantities of red meat, we are failing dismally on drug rehabilitation, and we do not do
an adequate job regarding suicides.
Thus far this year the state of New Hampshire has had 435 deaths related to COVID-19, and this
is deemed worthy of shutting the entire state down. Nashua, in turn deems its 35 deaths worthy
of forcing draconian measures onto the populace. Neither of these approaches is backed by real
data or critical reasoning.
As elected officials, it behooves you to analyze data, to not react with panic and lack of
understanding of the facts behind something. Your mask ordinance is one such example. Your
reaction to spend city funds to create a never-used field hospital is another example. The inane
signs that you have spent thousands on and posted throughout the city is yet another example. Do
you for one minute think — to use a phrase quoted by a judge recently ~ that the citizenry have
been living under a rock and are not aware of COVID-19?
