It is such a brilliant idea to extend a mask mandate that hasn’t done a thing, to slow down a virus, that we can’t slow down or stop. Covid cases and hospitalizations went up with the mask mandate. Looks like it didn’t work. Omicron being so much more transmissible, that the poorly fitted mask most people wear just to uphold the mandate, are ineffective. It seems to be a bit of a power grab, knowing all we know about the Omicron variant, that has ripped through countries non-stop despite all mitigation strategies. As stated by many experts, everyone will be exposed to this variant. The virus is not going away. For 2 years cases spike around the same time then drops off, mitigations have done nothing. It’s time to let everyone make their own risk management choices. With vaccines plus the natural immunity, that will be boosted by the high transmission rate and mild symptoms of Omicron for 99+ % of people. Should be enough for us all to get back to normal. We should follow Denmark, who dropped all restriction. Their Models predicting the flow of Covid-19 have been extremely more accurate and much the best compared to many other countries.

As realized by the Danish government and, crucially, the vast majority of its 5.8m citizens, the virus is no longer deemed a “critical threat to society”

Tyra Grove Krause, director of infection preparedness at the country’s infectious diseases agency SSI, said there was nothing for it but to let the new wave “run through the population”. “With omicron, it is impossible to stop the spread of infection, even with severe restrictions,

“Covid is now on pare with the common cold.”

They believe it’s time to live with covid and stop trying to control something we can’t control. Rules just to make rule are tyrannical. Think of it, full restaurants and bars with people talking & laughing, shoulder to shoulder at the bar and you need to wear a mask when you walk in, out and to the restrooms, really? That’s not stopping or slowing and spread of anything. It’s a rule just to make politicians look as if they care, while most of them don’t even follow their own mandates. Not really showing good leadership extending this mandate with all that data we now have. It’s like trying to stop a flood with a box of sponges, useless. We are not going to “Crush the virus”, we need to live with it, we have no control over it. The truly sad thing is, now states are removing their mandates when nothing has changed in “The Science”. The only thing that has changed is people’s attitudes, and politicians now trying to curry votes, because the political theatre of mask wearing is waning enough is enough. One other thing, masking kids in school, they are the least affected by covid -19 but, most damaged group from covid mitigations, Look at the #’s below. NH Population under 20 years old , approximately 291,038, Infections under 20 years old, 72,630 / 25%, hospitalized 51 / .0175 %, Deaths 1 / .00034 %. Those only the confirmed infected, they’re probably much more. The truly Madden thing is letters like these will do nothing. The aldermen truly don’t care, most can’t be voted out until at least 2023 and they won’t meet again until Feb. 22. So, we are stuck being uselessly masked up for no other reason than some aldermen want to wheel their power. I would love to tell people to just ignore the mandate in Nashua, but that only affects the poor workers in stores, restaurants and bars that take the brunt of discouraged patrons, not the aldermen who caused the issues.

Please stop the silly mask mandate now.