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To: Kerry Litka
Subject: RE: Proposed Amendment to Mask Ordinance
From: Kerry Litka [mailto:kerrylitka@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 5:25 PM
To: Caron, June; Clemons, Benjamin; Dowd, Richard; Lu, Elizabeth; Gathright, Linda; Jette, Ernest; Kelly, Shashanna;
Kiee, Patricia; Laws, Brandon; Lopez, Thomas; Graham, Donna; Cleaver, Skip; O’Brien, Michael (Alderman); Schmidt, Jan;
Tencza, David; Wilshire, Lori; Mayor's Office Email; Board of Aldermen
Subject: Proposed Amendment to Mask Ordinance
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8/17/2020
To the Nashua City Board of Aldermen,
| am writing to express my concern and opposition over the recent proposed revisions made to the mask
ordinance. When the ordinance was first proposed, you cited the number of cases in the neighboring state of
Massachusetts as a reason to require the ordinance. However, the MA towns that border Nashua - Dunstable
and Tyngsboro - have significantly fewer cases than the city of Nashua.
Count of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Tests Performed in MA by City/Town, January 1, 2020 — August 5,
2020
source: https:/Awww.mass.gov/doc/weekily-covid-19-public-health-report-august-5-2020/do…
Dunstable, MA
Total Cases - 10
Case Count Last 14 Days: 0
Total Positive Tests (Last 14 days): 0
Percent Positivity (Last 14 days): 0
Tynsgboro, MA
Total Case Count - 103
Case Count Last 14 Days: <5
Total Positive Tests (Last 14 days): 4
Percent Positivity (Last 14 days): 1.2%
As of August 10th, 2020, the city of Nashua has to date accumulated a total case count of 777 cases,
currently has 34 active cases.
Source: httos:/Awww.nh.gov/covid1 9/dashboard/cumulative-cases.htm
This clearly indicates that the need to issue a mask ordinance to protect us from residents of neighboring MA
towns is not supported by any data.
It is now mid August and we have been under a mask ordinance since May. Since then, the number of cases
in the city has dropped, as well as the number of fatalities. According to a recent article in the Union Leader,
Nashua is no longer dealing with even a moderate level of cases.
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