Board of Aldermen 02-22-2022 Page 7
Andrea Pearce
Hi, good evening. My name is Andrea Pearce. I’m the owner resident at 14 Curtis Drive here in Nashua. | just want to
speak briefly on the mask mandate. I'm an executive officer in the entertainment industry in Massachusetts for which the
Governor has recently rescinded the mask mandate for the State. Certain municipalities have rescinded theirs. Some
have some haven't. Some of the venues that | operate are over 1,000 person capacity and | will share with you that
nobody wears masks. We're required to make them wear them in to get in the building but as soon as they get in, they
throw them in the trash. | have about 5,000 people a week between 3,000 and 5,000 people a week coming through my
venues because we are fully opened - whether it's a concert, whether it's a nightclub night, or it's a corporate event.
Nobody is wearing masks. They have seem to have gotten over that fact with the numbers reduced in Mass., for numbers
reduced here in New Hampshire. Everybody seems to be on that same, you know, path of wanting to have the mask
mandates removed. So | think with that information, the boards should reconsider rescinding again and, you know,
following in line with what the people really want and what they're showing by their actions in the time right now. Thank
you.
President Wilshire
Is there anyone else in the chamber that wishes to speak? | don't see anyone else on Zoom. So we're gonna move on.
Julie Sage
Oh, | would like to speak.
President Wilshire
Your name and address for the record, please.
Julie Sage
My name is Julie Sage. | live at 38 Deerwood Drive. Sol am a student at Nashua High School North. | am a senior and
yeah | want to speak about behalf of masks on all the student body because there is actually a lot of those multiple
students went to the School Board and told them that they wanted masks and the School Board did not listen. There's
currently a lot of students actually panicking within school about the mask mandate being even optional because they're
scared that their family is now going to catch COVID, give it to their family, and the family is going to die.
So | would like to talk a bit about what COVID can cause and why people are so scared. So it does cause brain damage.
COVID causes six of the protein precursors for Alzheimer's disease and because these six of the protein precursors are
being increased by COVID when people catch them. COVID patients have actually been shown to have more of these 14
precursors than even Alzheimer's patients. Four year olds are getting early onset Alzheimer's which before used to be 60
year olds. There is another protein called CCL11 which is built up when COVID causes inflammation in the brain. This
protein is caused with concussions, CTE - which is known to be one with football head trauma, different things like that,
and even patients in chemotherapy get this and when they have an increase of this protein, they get something called
“chemo brain”. It's a very bad thing.
Also if COVID itself ends up in the brain, it causes neurons to merge and die off which also means it also can attack
neurons anywhere in the body, which can lead to many forms of neuropathy, such as uncontrollable muscle twitching,
constant burning sensations, etc. There's also a lot of lung damage because it is a respiratory disease and the scarring
caused by COVID that can be seen in X-rays don't entirely heal and we haven't had enough time to actually find out if it
ever heals. Many of those people that have that scarring are experiencing depletion of oxygen compared to healthy
individuals and this is even seen in people who are asymptomatic and didn't even know that they ever got COVID. Those
who had more symptoms with COVID have it even worse.
Also, even in kids as young as 11 blood clots were forming in their lungs after they already recovered from COVID.
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
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