On Wednesday, the New York Daily News carried a piece bearing the sensational headline “American individualism has failed epically: The hard lesson of the coronavirus crisis.” The headline cannot be laid at the author’s feet — writers often don’t pen their own — but Jess Coleman, a recent law school graduate, is responsible for the op-ed itself, which is an indictment of individualism so flimsy it might not even stand up in Venezuelan court.

Importantly, now is not the time to spike ideological footballs, declaring that your favorite (or most reviled) take on the right role of government has either saved (or kneecapped) the nation against the coronavirus pandemic. We should scrutinize approaches to dealing with the disease, of course, but avoid incendiary polemics. Now is a time to pull together, and also far too early in the battle to definitively declare what did or did not work.