Nashua Board of Health - Stop the Fear Messaging
Nashua Board of Health – Stop the fear messaging
The Nashua Board of Health is pushing a message of fear creating a deep divide in public support for covid protocols. The best leaders take stock of their decisions and own their failures. Nashua’s stories of failure have not yet been spoken.
Where did Nashua’s Board of Health go wrong:
Backing the closing of our public school building for 13 months in favor of remote learning, creating an immeasurable negative impact on the students.
Forcing public school masking ‘forever’ policies when children were never the risk group.
Backing an agenda to forbid parent volunteers in Nashua public schools despite massive teacher shortages and lost learning time unlike other area public schools.
Eliminating discussion and failing to balance the mental, physical, educational, and intellectual needs of our students.
Elevating the effects suffered by students of inconsistent and ever changing policies, lost education, isolation, and family financial stress.
Mandating an inconsistent city wide masking policy without proper monitoring, data collection, or enforcement.
Failing to acknowledge the employment bias of a Board of Health member who served as a former Nashua Hospital CEO. This member pushed hospital profitability over the greater good of a community wide health plan.
Dismissing vaccine choice while pushing past variant boosters for all ages.
Ignoring and dismissing any discussion on the effectiveness of natural immunity over pharmaceutical immunity.
Hiding data to balance risk assessment for health choices for Nashua citizens.
Adopting a one size fits all health policy approach regardless of existing medical conditions.
Does any of this make sense? Two years into covid, the initial flat-footed response was understandable, but we are well past this point and life moves on. Sometimes it takes science a while to figure it out. If you want to wear a mask, wear it. If you want to get a vaccine, get it. Stop blaming one group or the other. As time progresses, no doubt it will be discovered that we should have responded differently. Let’s focus on living.