Special Board of Aldermen 12-21-2020 Page 19
But all you are doing with a random curfew is causing people to pack into the facilities that you are
trying to protect earlier in higher densities and there’s no evidence to support that this makes any sense
in doing. So! remain saying that this is a knee jerk reaction to a problem because you don’t have any
other ideas to solve it. And that’s not the way to solve these kind of problems. We need to be
thoughtful about this. We don’t need to just do what Massachusetts has done and think that that’s the
right thing. You know, I’m done.
President Wilshire
(inaudible) McNichols? You’re on mute.
A McNichols (inaudible) Drive Nashua. | want to start out by saying that | don’t go to bars, | don’t work
in bars, | don’t Know anybody that works in a bar and! am wholeheartedly against this curfew. If we are
going to allow sports kids to gather, churches, congregations, with even larger amounts in closer
quarters than you are talking, | think it’s difficult to justify saying though at 9:30 we are going to cut that
off. If church started at 9:30 would we cut that off too? Are we not going to have midnight mass on
Christmas because it’s after 9:30. And | think we have to understand too that this goes beyond just the
spread of COVID. We have what was brought up before charitable gaming, which is incredibly
important to the City. We have parents who are incredibly stressed out teaching their kids at home and
trying to handle remote learning. Again, my girls are in college, | don’t have a pony in this race and | am
open minded enough to understand that this is not the solution. Unless you are going to shut everything
down which we don’t want, | think picking and choosing an hour and putting people out of work is not
the answer. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Is there anyone else who has not previously spoken that wants to speak to the Board?
Name and address for the record?
No name Yeah for the record | live in Nashua, I’ve been living in Nashua for about a year and a half, |
moved here from Boston. | agree with the previous speaker, | think we don’t have a significant risk in
Nashua and | think it’s kind of idiotic to assume that 9:30 (audio cuts out) is the right timing, it’s like 9:29
you were safe, 9:30 you are talking about getting COVID. And we don’t have a significant outbreak
here, and people pretty much live very cautiously and from a distance. | don’t an obvious need of you
posting that, that’s all.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Alright, | am going to make a last call, if anyone who has not spoken yet and wishes to
address the Board. Shaun? Name and address for the record.
Shaun | would like to speak. 236 Manchester Street, Nashua. | just have three things to state. First, |
was at the Pheasant Lane Mall today at 11:30 shopping. And there were so many people down there,
OK? So | don’t know how you can rule out restaurants and businesses at 9:30 when you can’t even get
a parking spot at the Pheasant Lane Mall. And if you want to enforce things, you should be looking at
something like that and not at restaurants.
The other thing | have is where did the time of 9:30 come from? | haven’t heard any data on that to
support that. Ok? And | am against this, | don’t think it’s fair and there’s not enough data to support a
decision even the Board of Health just said so, OK? It’s a theory, it is shared across everywhere, but
you need data to make a claim. It needs to be sufficient data like when they release a vaccine before we
are the only town and city in the State on the border, one of them, that’s shutting down. It doesn’t make
any sense. And that’s all | have to say.
