Board of Aldermen 12-22-2020 Page 10
And after we heard last night about all the businesses that would suffer serious harm, | hope you wouldn’t
pursue an action that isn’t proven to do anything to help our COVID spread. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Next | have Haley? Name and address for the record, Haley?
Haley Gallagher Hi my name is Haley Gallagher, my address is 23 Brianne Drive. So | am speaking out
and reaching out because |, as a homeowner in Nashua, feel extremely underrepresented throughout this
entire pandemic process and | also just want to say that | was aware of the meeting tonight through doing
some research. But | also — and | was aware of it and planning on attending but | was not aware that the
meeting was called for yesterday so that’s just another example of how | am completely underrepresented
and | think that the general citizens of Nashua are left completely out of the picture.
So | want to say first of all | have lost an extremely huge amount of faith in Nashua because of not only the
mask ordinance but now the fact that this is even a conversation because | don’t even need to sit here and
give you any facts or statistics. We all know that this 9:30 time is there is no scientific data behind it or
anything. And | find it completely dishonest and honestly oppressing for you, the Board of Aldermen, to sit
here and claim that you represent the people when there’s — | mean a huge number of people on this
meeting today, yesterday and just walk up to anyone in Nashua and ask them that are clearly against this
Ordinance. So | just want to say aside from that when we started out the pandemic, | feel like you know if
you read the web site that Nashua has about the pandemic, you don’t know the risks and we know the risks
and we are already doing a combination of mitigation efforts to begin with and furthermore | can’t speak to
as being a restaurant owner but | can speak as someone in their early 30’s who is healthy who would be
the one actually going to the bars and restaurants after 9:30 and | can say that | know the risks and | am
willing to make my own decisions, | would like the ability to do that and | also just want to state for the
record | actually contracted COVID and am here to tell the story; you know luckily healthy today. But | am
just trying to say that | find it extremely also oppressing that there is no end date even included in that. |
noticed some of Alderman Lopez’s research that he included in the Ordinance and | am just here basically
to ask for yes that you vote against it but furthermore | would like more of an update on what is actually
happening. So if this Ordinance is going to go in place | would like data and facts that support the fact that
these bars and restaurants being shut down at 9:30 is significantly lowering the number of COVID cases.
And not to mention I’d just like to also state for the record that two people under the age of 40 have died in
New Hampshire total.
President Wilshire
Haley you need to wrap up.
Haley Gallagher So | am asking that you vote against it. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Chris? Chris, did you wish to speak?
Chris Parks Yes, sorry. Hey Chris Parks, 24 Bolic Street in Nashua. Just wanted to make three quick
points. You know, for one scientifically | don’t think it makes sense, every time | hear people talking about
COVID they say oh science, science, science. Someone referenced it earlier, science is showing and
statistics are showing that it is spread in the home, it is not spread at bars and it is not spread in retail
stores. It’s just not how it is going about. It’s going — people spreading it in their homes. Somebody
already mentioned it but I’d like to reiterate it, the virus doesn’t know a time, the curfew is frankly laughable.
| mean how does that even make sense, that oh we will do it at 9:30 that way people aren't getting COVID.
And | get what the rationale is oh people will start drinking and they are come across the border from
Massachusetts. You know, at some point in time, we’ve got to let, we’ve got to trust our citizens to make
their own choices and allow them to make them themselves.
