Special Board of Aldermen 12-21-2020 Page 14
As of last night, 14.4% of New Hampshire cases were due to contact with someone with COVID-19:
14% were clusters (inaudible); 5% were travel associated; 9.8% were community transmission and the
remaining 56.6% was unclear or unknown. So for a case to be categorized as transmitted via
community transmission, it’s likely that they would have told the person conducting the interview that the
only places they had gone or the only people that they had seen had been at the grocery store or
pharmacy or some other community based business. For a case to be categorized as “unclear” or
“unknown” the person had no idea where they may have gotten sick and they had no contact with
positive cases that they knew of, they could not pinpoint a specific place or time. And these unclear or
unknown cases are likely community based as well and this is the category where individuals who were
exposed at restaurants, bars or clubs would likely fall into. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Next | have Matt Soleyn? Matt, are you on?
Matt Yes, | am on, can folks hear me?
President Wilshire
Yes we need your name and address for the record, please?
Matt Soleyn Hey Matt Soleyn | am at Digital Drive in Nashua, New Hampshire. So let me turn off the
video because it is going to lag. So can everyone hear me clearly?
President Wilshire
Yes.
Matt Soleyn Great so | just want to say it saddens me to hear from a lot of the people who have talked
about how they are going to lose income or have their jobs at risk here and worry about how to pay the
bills. | heard a lot of folks who said they worked at the Boston Billiard Club & Casino. | was actually just
there a couple of hours ago myself. | was not worried about getting COVID-19, | think they've done a
good job along with a lot of other restaurants implementing good sanitation. Everybody has to wear the
mask there, etc. And | think that, you know, it’s going to be tough for those people. We are talking
about going into basically this is the week of Christmas, people are going to have bills to pay come the
end of the month, January rent. And you are saying that you are going to shut down basically
businesses at 9:30 killing those people’s jobs and | think that’s just terrible.
Also, there is as the physician mentioned that they had limited data so | know that New York City did
some analysis on their cases and they only had 1.4% linked to indoor dining and drinking, that’s less
than 2 out of every 100 cases. So | believe that the Aldermen, they need to vote against this measure.
It's going to cause irreparable economic harm and damage to our community. If they vote for this
measure and it passes, they will be responsible for killing jobs in our town and that’s not good. Also
what is going to happen too if businesses in Nashua have to close down at 9:30 whether it is a
restaurant or a gaming facility, they are going to get hurt because people are just going to go to their
competition. People are going to say, well if the place closes at 9:30 I’ll go to Manchester, go to Salem,
go to Portsmouth, some other town. So we are going to actually kill the City of Nashua and that
business is just going to go elsewhere.
So it doesn’t make any sense you know, how can you think it’s OK if somebody shows up at 9:15 it’s
fine but come 9:31 they are going to get or spread COVID, it just doesn’t make sense. | am for the
Aldermen to vote against this measure. And I’ll mention also, so | am part-time poker player, which is
why | was actually at Billiards today. | don’t rely on that income to pay my bills, but | know a lot of people
that do. They play professionally and if they can’t play poker because they have to close down earlier,
they won’t make as much income or any income and they rely on that income some of them to feed their
