As presidential adviser on entrepreneurship, I took on the cudgels for the MSMEs and advocated for a policy that would make it easier for our millions of small entrepreneurs–who make up 99.5 percent of businesses in the Philippines–gain access to money, markets, and mentorship. When the pandemic broke out, I found myself championing the reopening of businesses. But I soon realized that in order to return our businesses to normal operations, we needed to vaccinate as many Filipinos as we could. And so my role expanded; I was thrust into the company of experts on epidemiology, data science, publ…