Board of Aldermen 01-25-2022 Page 24
you’re the only one in here. You don't have to put it on. | don't feel like I’m breaking any big rules and | was literally the only
one in there. | went to another business, small one, the owner doesn’t wear a mask at all. He said you don’t have to wear a
mask. | don't wear a mask.
Alderman O’Brien
Thirty seconds.
Laurie Ortolano
| did it that way. Our data is coming down and the Mayor is not giving us the kind of information we deserve. You cancelled
in the last five meetings on masks, you cancelled public input three times. Two Board of Health meetings cancelled and one
Board of Aldermen meeting cancelled on masks. You want to know why people send e-mails that maybe are not so nice,
because you cancel us out. I’m okay with this mandate. I’m not going to fight it.
Alderman O’Brien
Time.
Laurie Ortolano
| have other places to go. Thank you.
Sara Dobbins
Hi, my name is Sara Dobbins. |’m at 1 Gettysburg Drive in Ms. Klee’s Ward | believe, right? | just want to start by saying
that | have a whole bunch of neighbors and we were not of the like mind. | understand that these Wards are huge and
they're encompassing a lot of people and | get that. My thoughts are a little scattered. | sat here and listened to the whole
meeting with an open mind. | tried to be as open as | could about it. I’m a mother of two. One in the Nashua school system.
| just tonight went to pick her up and there’s — sorry I’m having difficulty regulating my breath with this and being anxious but
beside the point, right? So | pick her up and there’s dividers on the cafeteria tables. | had no idea. | e-mail my Principal
prior and they said it was something that had been done last year and carried over into this year but there was no notification
that that was being done. | get precautions need to be taken but where is the communication?
On that vein of thought, | want to thank this Alderman. | am so sorry that | do not know your name. | only know a few, a
handful as I’ve been journeying my path of getting to know how the city politics work better. That’s basically my goal of
attending all of these meetings. Not all of yours but the meetings that | have been attending.
| just wanted to say thank you for the opportunity to shed voice on it because quite honestly as I’ve attended meetings, I’ve
seen more outrage about public comment being taken out than compliments or instances of public comment being given or
an opportunity for that to be given. | wonder is there a better more constructive way to get the input of the public so that we
can have these silent majorities that everybody is discussing to be able to input in a way that they feel less bullied. Sorry for
my — I’m just trying to be quick. | think that everybody should have a voice. You're right, everybody should have a voice. So
let’s find ways to do that. Is that not our job here in this committee as a whole?
So moving on, | wanted to say thank you for collecting any data and | hope that even a couple hundred voices means
something versus thousands because | do know that some of the groups that that poll was posted in had 15,000 members.
So you can’t tell me that it was all one way or the other but only 300 decided to participate.
Alderman O’Brien
Thirty seconds.
Sara Dobbins
Blew my mind. If no things will change, why are we mandating? | hear a lot of talk about a lot of stuff. If you don’t’ want it to
beat the efficacy because you can’t find anything on the internet, how are people getting information to, for, against, or
whatever to back up a mandate? It makes no sense. | heard way too many cases of vaccinated individuals passing onto
unvaccinated people. I’m an example of this and my infant son who is five months had COVID and it was brought into our
house that way.
