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| really don’t feel that closing restaurants and bars at 9:30 is really going to, is really going to do anything. It
is going to hurt more than it is going to help. | think that there are alternatives to doing something to
mitigate the spread of the virus and | think that a lot of these businesses now are — already have instituted
most of those. | would add that you know if the City wanted to go ahead and ask that these businesses run
their furnaces, not the heat portion of it but the fan portion constantly it will change the air more frequently
in the rooms and that will actually help in mitigating the spread.
| think that the restaurants and bars are all adhering to the State’s regulations, City’s regulations, CDC
guidelines. | saw, don’t know if my letter has been entered into the record there or not, but there was some
numbers that | had found about New York City where the actual spread was coming from and it went from
household and social gatherings were 73.84% is where that spread was coming from. Restaurants and
bars were all the down the list, it was only 1.43%. So | feel that this might not really be thought out fully as
far as having real data to support the closing. And let’s see, | think that’s pretty much it. | would just hope
that you guys look at the letter that | sent in and see some additional facts that | put in there and | hope that
you will not vote to close the bars and restaurants at 9:30. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Next we have Beth Scaer. Beth you are on mute. Ms. Scaer, do you wish to address the
Board?
Beth Scaer Can you hear me?
President Wilshire
We can now, yes.
Beth Scaer Oh excellent. (Telephone rings) Hi, | was just checking in to let you know that Dr. Stephanie
Wolf...
Alderman Caron
Excuse me, Madam President?
President Wilshire
Alderman Caron?
Alderman Caron
Yes, these speakers are not giving their names and addresses.
President Wilshire
Thank you.
Beth Scaer Yes Beth Scaer, 111 East Hobart Street.
President Wilshire
Thank you, Beth.
Beth Scaer Dr. Stephanie Wolf-Rosenblum member of the Nashua Board of Health said at her, the
beginning of her remarks on December 9"" at the Board of Health meeting, she said curfews aren’t proven
to reduce the burden of COVID in the community.
