Board of Aldermen 05-25-2021 Page 53
President Wilshire
Next we have Alison Dyer?
Alison Dyer Hello, thank you. Allison Dyer, it is Wellman Avenue in Nashua, New Hampshire. And | just
wanted to say thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. | do appreciate the repeal of the mask
ordinance here in Nashua. However, it is still a little bit tough where there’s this false choice between public
health and individual freedoms. We have kind of accepted this as binary so that has invited politicians to
politicize it. Public Health in another words is inconsistent with the right to be left alone. Of all the risk factors
for disease or injury it would seem now today that freedom would be the most pernicious. And | am not really
sure when we changed over to this, we can’t trust anybody we look at everyone as a threat. But we just want
the option back. | think that there should be no rules other than the recommendations provided and people can
do with those as they wish. We seem to have missed that and unfortunately walked away from that and | think
that is something that we need to get back to where everyone can make their own individual choices and we
move on. So thank you.
AJ Todd — Yes | just wanted to also comment on....
President Wilshire
Name and address for the record please.
AJ Todd It’s AJ Todd, | live at 4 Greeley Street, Nashua. | just also wanted to comment on my disappointment
in the decision to allow the Mayor to restrict access to our house. You know, maybe if he wants to continue to
restrict access to our house we should stop paying him. | don’t think that’s right at all and | don’t think it’s your
guys’ authority to do that. That’s our house and we pay for it and it is the taxpayers. | also wanted to get on
here really quick and say that I’m very disappointed that this City’s decision not to have a Memorial Day
Parade again, you know, we are sitting here listening to anti-hate, we are going to have anti-hate parade which
| always encourage that type of behavior, | am not going to condemn it at all. When we can’t even honor our
dead, we can’t even do anything patriotic for our City. We missed 4" of July, are we going to miss 4" of July
again this year? |’m so tired of it and | want the City to do something patriotic for once and hold the Memorial
Day Parade, | implore all of you to do.
Charles Forester — Hi Charles Forester, 9 St. James Place, Nashua, NH. | just wanted to say that it is really
shocking to hear for the past, | don’t know 20 to 30 minutes people go back and nitpick this mask mandate, Oh
let’s repeal it, but then let’s add this, let's add these recommendations. | really applaud Jan Schmidt for
actually promoting self-responsibility, saying look, let’s let the businesses do what they want to do. | think |
speak on behalf of a lot of citizens where we can no longer tell the difference between what is actually for our
own health and what is actually virtue signaling. And a lot of us are tired of it. | really appreciated Jan
Schmidt's, it was totally simple | think people should’ve gone with that and just moved on. But for the past 20
to 30 minutes it was nitpicked and it’s all very confusing to us again. So that’s all | have to say. Thank you for
the time.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Is there anyone else that wishes to give public comment? Anna Wendle?
Anna Wendle This is Anna Wendle, Salem Street in Nashua. | just want to applaud the Board of Aldermen for
taking the time to listen carefully to what the Board of Health had to say, take that into consideration and to
continue to work to protect our citizens in Nashua. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Is there anyone else that wants to address the Board? Could you give me your name and address
for the record?
