Board of Aldermen 01-25-2022 Page 6
recommendation to continue wearing masks will still work but remember about a year ago when they also recommended
curfew because COVID only comes out at 9:30 at night. Hopefully you’ll continue to disregard the Mayor. He is the guy
who brought us question 2. We saw what a roaring success that was.
As someone who has lead over 200 marines in combat situations across multiple continents and multiple countries, got
shot at multiple countries, | can tell you that | won't let fear shake my decision making. | would hope the rest of our so
called leaders would understand what that title means and do the same.
Alderman O’Brien
30 seconds
Representative Linda Harriott-Gathright
Hello President Wilshire, and Mayor Donchess, and to the Board of Aldermen. | am truly appreciative of our Health
Department and ...
President Wilshire
Linda we need your name and address for the record please.
Representative Linda Harriott-Gathright
I’m sorry. Linda Gathright, 28 Marion Lane, Nashua, NH. Thank you. So as | said, | appreciate the work that the Board
of Health has done and as well as the Board of Aldermen. | am definitely in for the mask continuing at least another
month or so until hopefully things get much better than where we are today. | do believe in the work that the Board of
Health is doing to keep us abreast of what’s happening here in Nashua. Thank you.
Alicia Houston
Aldermen and Mayor, | appreciate the time. Alicia Houston, 139 Westwood Drive. | would just like to echo the sentiments
of Ms. Ortolano, Ms. Colquhoun, Mr. Gouthru, Ms. Scaer, Ms. Smith, Mr. Rosenberg, Mr. Parks, Ms. Dyer, and | also
would like to remind everyone that New York City actually just lifted their mask mandate. So if they’re able to do that,
there’s no reason why we can’t do that in a smaller city like Nashua. Thank you.
Brady Owens
Hello, my name is Brady Owens. I’m live at 16 Danbury Road in Nashua, NH. | just wanted to also support that | am not
for extending this mask mandate. | am thankful for the Board of Aldermen and President Wilshire for allowing public
comment this time. It was very upsetting the last about a month ago we were here and we weren't allowed to talk. So I’m
not going to take a long time but what Laurie Ortolano said, and Colquhoun, Chris Parks, and everybody else | support
everything they said. | just want to remind the Board of Aldermen you know one of you all’s job is to represent us. We're
here talking. We're telling you we don’t want this.
| was very disappointed when at the last meeting Alderman Dowd who represents me started the meeting by saying hey
I’ve heard from a lot of businesses. I’ve heard from a lot of people. Nobody wants this but yet you voted for it anyway.
We've heard the Board of Health. You can’t go anywhere without hearing that stuff. We're done with it. We're here
telling you the people we don’t want this. As many people have already said, we’re not paying attention to anyway. |
haven’t worn a mask yet and I’m not going to and there’s a lot of businesses around town that aren't willing to enforce it. |
can’t blame them. This needs to be over. Thank you for your time.
Don Whalen
My name is Don Whalen, 12 Lincoln Ave., Nashua. I’m against the mask mandate in Nashua. Mask mandates have
always been more about showing compliance than keeping people safe. The CDCs latest embarrassing disclosure
further proves it. As outline in a recent New York Times article, the CDC concedes that cloth masks do not protect
against the virus, especially Omicron, as effectively as other masks. This, again, proves that the CDC is continuing to
change course on mask messaging as well as other COVID related items. What’s next for Nashua N95 or KN95 mask
mandates? Don’t laugh, this is actually happening in California. Just this week the Los Angeles Times noted “a big push
for California’s to switch to N95 or KN95 masks as an updated county health order” that went into effect this past Monday.
Requires employers to provide not just masks for their employees but a well-fitting medical grade mask, surgical mask, or
