Maybe it's the great parents I had, the great boarding school I attended or the fact my husband and I chose to homeschool our son, that has made me a lifelong learner with an insatiable curiosity.  My Dad always reminded me, that one should never ever stop learning. That learning doesn't stop, should not stop, once we leave high school, college, university.
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@PeterHotez's Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science and am engrossed in Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Impact on Global Health and Development which I think any thinking person should read. Have pre-ordered his The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist's Warning which comes out in September.
Unless one has traveled a lot one probably has NO idea there are neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
Soil transmitted diseases, snail fever, river blindness, sleeping sickness, dengue. How many Americans know there are neglected tropical diseases here in North America?
Love that he begins chapter 1 Introduction to the Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Ancient Afflictions of Stigma and Poverty with these two quotes:
The age of hypocrisy has been succeeded by that of indifference, which is worse, for indifference corrupts and appeases, it kills the spirit before it kills the body. It has been stated before, it bears repeating the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Elie Wisel
It is a trite saying that one half of the world knows not how the other lives. Who can say what sores might be healed, what hurts solved, were the doings of each half of the world's inhabitants understood and appreciated by the other? Mahatma Gandhi