If you go to a region with a lot of malaria, you find that only the children get seriously sick and the adults are basically immune. I wanted to unde… - Faith Osier

As you move up it becomes harder because you’ll be distracted by dramas and sideshows, but remember that they’re not the main story.

The closest comparison I can give is with COVID-19. When it hit Western countries, we all felt it: the pain of lockdown; of losing someone; of being ill ourselves. We felt that urgency, that we needed a vaccine and we needed it yesterday, so we said, ‘let's do it, let's do everything that we can’. For diseases that are far off, that sense of urgency is lost.

whatever you have in your hand to do, if you give it your whole heart and all your energy, it will give you a lot of dividends.