Special Board of Aldermen 12-21-2021 Page 15
Unidentified Female Speaker
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Unidentified Female Speaker
| can see the video. | hope it failed.
Alderman Clemons
Nothing can be heard.
Alderwoman Lu
| can hear you.
Jeff Poehnert
If you are muted, then unmute.
Alderman Klee
Jeff | can hear you both in the chamber and on the video.
President Wilshire
Okay, we'll resume.
Kim Bernard, Chief Public Health Nurse
Would you like me just to continue where | left off?
President Wilshire
Yes.
Kim Bernard, Chief Public Health Nurse
Okay. | Say all of this to help our community and the Board of Aldermen understand why we support masking and the
mask mandate. It is a simple evidence based mitigation strategy we can do to protect ourselves and others. As
leaders of this community when we look back in 10 years at how we handled this pandemic, will we honestly be able
to say we did everything we could to reduce transmission, prevent death, and promote health? | hope so. Thank you.
Bobbie Bagley, Director of Public Health and Community Services
We do have Jane Goodman has some final words to wrap up and then we'll take questions. We have our
Epidemiologist Lindsay Boyd who started with us Monday who's also here that can help explain some of the data if
needed.
Jane Goodman
Thank you Director Bagley and thank you to the Board of Aldermen and Mayor Donchess for allowing us to be here
tonight to talk about the mask mandate. | don't have prepared remarks as my colleagues do. | really came in support
of their extremely eloquent and well researched testimony tonight. As a public health professional and public health
strategist with the Division, I've worked in public health for over 20 years and we always think of prevention,
prevention, prevention. We have the tools for prevention. There's no reason that we should not throw every tool we
have to the prevention of quite frankly, a preventable illness. So it sounds redundant but I'm very concerned as | mill
around Nashua. If we can get even 20% more 30% more people in those grocery stores wearing masks, | would feel
so much more comfortable for my community because we would be preventing that transmission that Director Bagley
described.
