Elizabeth Bradley, President, Vassar College writes: From what I can see, we need to do a better job of preventing the spread of both of these lethal forces. Scanning the landscape of both pandemics, I cannot help but think that too many of us are plagued by an overabundance of individualism and an inadequate sense of collectivism. Robert Bellah and colleagues in Habits of the Heart have posited that North America’s dominant language is that of individualism, self-determination, freedom and personal responsibility. Our second language, in contrast, is that of interconnectedness, interdependence and egalitarianism.