You're right. For ordinary people around me malaria is not a problem. And yes, here people die in road accidents and should it happen that one side of the accident is a local government/enforcement member friend or relative means that they'd escape justice. And this is the problem. And problems must be solved from largest to smallest, as the cut tree is worked by the big axe first and by the tiny needle last.
The biggest lapse in understanding is that people cannot deal with the order of magnitude differences in numbers involved. Humans are sometimes "the flea" and other times "the elephant". It is difficult to decide intuitively which we are at any particular point. This table[1] demonstrates this point quite well. Humans interact with the environment in ways that are orders of magnitude different in terms of impact, but it is hard to conceptualize that fact.
