Board of Aldermen 02-22-2022 Page 6
Sonia Prince
So | am concerned about the masks as well. I'm not a scientist, I'm not a doctor, I'm not a genealogists, | don't work for
the Health Department but | do think we should listen to the professionals. Masks do work. | love people who have
opinions about that. There are facts and then there's opinions. So | do hope you take the positivity rate into
consideration. | don't know that at the city level will be as bad as at the school level. | really think the schools dropped the
ball on that and not listening to the Board of Health is just beyond ridiculous in my opinion. But listen to the professionals,
listen to what they have to say. There is a new variant out there and it's more transmissible than the first Omicron strain.
So we still don't know what's happening with that. When the kids come back from school vacation, it could affect the entire
city because it can affect their parents, their grandparents, people go to work, from being with their kids, and so on. So |
am concerned about the next two weeks after school vacation. | do hope the positivity rates keep coming down.
The nice weather is coming and we should be able to start opening windows and people won't be gathering indoors
hopefully as much. So that should bring everything down and bring a little bit of normalcy after the wave kind of thing like
we had last summer that would be wonderful. So | wish the best for everyone and everybody stay safe and | hope that
you listen to the health professionals and kind of follow their guidance and prevention. Wearing a mask is not a big deal.
There's just so much drama and it usually starts with the adults. So if you talk to the kids at the high school, they don't
care about the mask. It's not a big deal. So anyway, have a great day. Thank you so much.
Karen Bill
Karen Bill, 95 Parnell Place here in Nashua. Thanks for the opportunity to talk about the masks because | know that it
may be acted on tonight. | think that if the Board of Health was so concerned about the situation in Nashua, this
gentleman would have put his foot down and said keep the masks on because of this, this, and this. Doctors will tell you
that some masks are better than others. The N95s are better than these. These let in too much air, they say you know
twirl it around your ears 14 times, and then you'll be calling the ambulance because | won't be able to breathe. A lot of air
gets in and out.
| applaud the Board of Education for resending the masks for kids. | think it's great. Teacher friends have told me it's very
hard to read kids to understand who's getting it and who's not getting it with a mask on. Facial expression is a big part of
society. | can't even imagine being a deaf child in school and you know what happens with them. | think it's greatly
affected businesses in Nashua. It's affected some of the decisions | have made about shopping in Nashua. Hey, I'll go
out to lunch in Hudson and while I'm over there | can do my grocery shopping and it's none of - I'm happy to say | was
going to say it's not anybody's business if I'm vaccinate or not but | am fully vaccinated. | got my booster. I'm healthy.
I've never got it. If I've been exposed to people who knows, maybe we've all been exposed to people with COVID and
some have gotten it some have not. But | am ready to ditch the mask in Nashua and | think it's time. And again, if it was
such a concern the Board of Health would have made a really strong statement. It's time. They have put that on you to
make the decision and | hope you make the right one and say let's get rid of the masks. Thank you very much.
Brady Owens
Brady Owens, 16 Danbury Road. | want to say | did not know about the Board of Education. That's wonderful news. I'm
glad that our children can breathe freely. | have a four year old daughter started pre K and | will say, you know, | put her
in private school for the simple fact | would never put a mask on my child. So but that's really good to hear some good
news tonight.
Concerning the mask mandate here in Nashua, you probably guessed I’m definitely opposed to it. | haven't worn one,
you know, and luckily a lot of businesses I've been to don't care about it. Even some businesses not even wearing
themselves, which is great. You know, say what you want about it, | don't believe anybody's freedom should ever be
taken away for any emergency whatsoever. You know, you start here. Where does it end? It’s a slippery slope.
But thank you for letting me speak tonight. | want to thank Board of Aldermen for also allowing us to speak again tonight.
| hope that continues for all city business from now on. Something else | learned this afternoon regarding some of the or
just now the other testimony. I'd definitely say that | am (inaudible) the other issues brought up with Aldermen being
required to be there in person and definitely for the people that's administering the council meetings. So it sounds like a
very good idea. You know a lot of us have jobs and stuff and yeah we have to be there for those jobs. We can't always
be remote. So | definitely echo those thoughts as well. Thank you for the time. Have a good afternoon.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Is there anyone else in the audience? Come on up to the microphone.
