Six years ago in March, we suddenly had to take up masking, distancing and sanitizing as weapons of choice in our early fight against the global coronavirus pandemic. The development of effective vaccines was relatively rapid, although the distribution was uneven around the world. Pray that we will use our gifts of memory, reason and skill to develop and equitably share vaccines and treatments across the globe to arrest or fend off all dangerous infections.

The photograph accompanying this column was taken on March 13, 2020, a couple of days before pandemic lockdowns began. I took the picture from the top of a large training hill near Mooney’s Bay in Ottawa, a height of land that had been part of my life since moving there in 1969. I spent a lot of time on that hill over the years, sliding down it as a youngster (and later with my own children), interval training up and down it........

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