Help save lives - vaccinate now

LAST week a letter supporting vaccines was sold on auction in London for 951000. My letter supporting vaccines can be bought for the cost of this Cape Argus. We are in the midst of the fourth wave with Omicron bugs floating around. Why land up in hospital, or worse, at the undertaker? Get vaccinated.

That writer’s husband-to-be got ill the day before their wedding and she decided to set a personal example and get vaccinated, even though her priests believed vaccinations went against the will of G-d.

“Among the duties of the Welfare Boards in the Provinces,” she wrote, “one of the most important should be the introduction of inoculation against smallpox, which causes great harm, especially among the ordinary people. Such inoculation should be common everywhere, and it is now all the more convenient, since there are doctors or medical attendants in nearly all districts, and it does not call for huge expenditure.”

What Empress Catherine the Great of Russia wrote on April 20, 1787, holds just as true today for Covid-19.

We, at the Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies, would like to add our voices to hers.

Vaccinations have defeated smallpox, and we would like it to do the same for Covid-19 which also causes great harm, especially among ordinary people whose livelihoods are disrupted and health jeopardised.

The South African government has provided medical attendants in nearly all districts to inoculate us against Covid-19.

Set a personal example, as Catherine the Great did, and get vaccinated. Help save lives – yours and ours.