Wow, you dismiss interventions sans rct, but now you denigrate conservatives who were not duped into risking side effects that even the great Fauci suffered from yet he failed to inform the public about, and then you champion masking and social distancing when the initial guidance informed the public not to wear masks, and there hasn’t been a rct of social distancing. You accept these protocols based on what you call “reasoned mitigation advice” but seem to dismiss the possibility that a 100% success rate intervention might have a reasoned benefit of mitigating the effects of the virus.

Again, maybe Fareed was just lucky, let’s just be grateful he chose the right patients to benefit from his placebo.