Graham, Donna
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Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2020 6:40 PM
To: Graham, Donna
Subject: AGAINST mandatory mask requirement
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Dear Alderman Graham:
[am writing to you to inform you of my opinion concerning the proposed ordinance
in reference to requiring the wearing of face coverings in Nashua. I sincerely hope
that the actual science in reference to this decision will be considered.
Please note that as a resident of Nashua Iam VERY strongly AGAINST this!!
There are plenty of studies showing the fact that the use of masks not only does not
prevent the spread of infections but that it actually may increase the rate of
infection.
One such study from Eli Perencevich, M.D., professor of medicine and
epidemiology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine states, “The average
healthy person does not need to have a mask, and they shouldn’t be wearing
masks,” Perencevich said. “There’s no evidence that wearing masks on healthy
people will protect them. They wear them incorrectly, and they can increase the risk
of infection because they’re touching their face more often. The only time a mask
should be worn is “if you’re sick and you have to leave the house,” Perencevich
said. “If you have the flu or think you have COVID, that’s when you’d put on a
mask to protect others.”
The researchers at the Sechenov University Institute of Medical Parasitology and
Tropical Medicine state, 1f a person wears the same mask multiple times or for
prolonged periods of time (more than 2 hours), he begins to spread a significant
amount of viral particles into the air around him. In two hours, the material of a
regular surgical mask begins to saturate and accumulate a significant amount of
saliva and mucus which contain the infectious particles of the mask wearer to where
it is enough to spread it to others around.
