CNBC's Santelli Said In Order To Reduce The Economic Impact 'We Should Just Give Everyone The Corona
Source: Business Insider
CNBC's Rick Santelli suggested everyone should get the novel coronavirus because the current panic is negatively impacting the economy. Santelli appeared on CNBC's "The Exchange," where he iterated he was "not a doctor" but made a comparison between the generic flu and the coronavirus that causes the disease known as COVID-19. Joshua Potash
"All I know is, think about how the world would be if you tried to quarantine everybody because of the generic-type flu," Santelli said. "Now I'm not saying this is the generic-type flu, but maybe we'd be just better off if we gave it to everybody, and then in a month it would be over because the mortality rate of this probably isn't going to be any different if we did it that way than the long-term picture, but the difference is we're wreaking havoc on global and domestic economies."
COVID-19 has flu-like symptoms including fever, cough and trouble breathing. Business Insider's Holly Secon broke down the differences between the novel coronavirus and the flu. In part she wrote: "'This virus is not SARS, it's not MERS, and it's not influenza,' [WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom] Ghebreyesus said in a press conference on Tuesday. 'It is a unique virus with unique characteristics.'
"The most crucial difference between the flu and the coronavirus is that the latter has been far deadlier. Whereas about 0.1% of people who get the flu die, the coronavirus' death rate is now at about 3.4%, based on the current numbers of cases and deaths...
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/cnbc-host-everyone-should-get-coronavirus-to-save-economy-2020-3
"The fatality rate of the novel coronavirus is still evolving, however, as more cases are confirmed. Many health experts believe that the rate will drop as the number of cases rises. That's because an estimated 80% of coronavirus cases are mild, and patients checking into hospitals have the most severe symptoms. People with symptoms mild enough to recover at home without seeking medical treatment aren't counted in the official totals."
The CDC reports that the flu has caused "12,000 61,000 deaths annually since 2010." With the current global death rate of 3.4% of the coronavirus, millions of Americans could die from the virus if everyone were to be infected.
- Rick Santelli, CNBC
* Daily Kos: 'CNBC Editor Says He Wishes Americans Would Just Go Ahead And Die- It Would Save The Stock Market' https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/6/1924842/-CNBC-Editor-says-he-wishes-Americans-would-just-go-ahead-and-die-it-would-save-the-stock-market?utm_campaign=trending
MD shmoo
(34 posts)Maybe we should just give everyone including newborns hip replacements immediately since they'll need them eventually anyway and we might as well just "get it out of the way" to reduce the economic impact later on.
BeyondGeography
(39,341 posts)People who either didn't want attention or nobody wanted to hear from. That part of the era was quite nice.
appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)the 80s and later when regulations were lifted so the partying and plundering could resume after a long 'dry spell' post Depression.
Growing up I never heard elders, employers, uncles, aunts or parents talk about the Stock Market, unlike today. How sad to now hear hardworking college students discussing 'credit scores' at age 20-22 when they should be learning, experiencing and enjoying life.
BeyondGeography
(39,341 posts)Unless youre one of the dwindling number of people with a defined benefit pension. I wish more people objected to that concept.
appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)since the assault on unions and pensions beginning with Raygun.
appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)*WATCH* (43 sec).
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)"Chicago Tea Party" remarks
Santelli drew attention for his remarks made on February 19, 2009, about the Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan, which was announced on February 18. While broadcasting from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Santelli accused the government of "promoting bad behavior", and raised the possibility of a "Chicago Tea Party". He suggested that individuals who knowingly obtained high-risk mortgages (and faced impending foreclosure as a consequence) were "losers".[9] The Tea Party remark was credited by some as "igniting" the Tea Party movement as a national phenomenon.[10][11]
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)I'm also curious about fire ants. Can he spread honey on his genitals and squat over a big nest of fire ants? I'd like to hear his report on the results of that experiment.
SpankMe
(2,955 posts)Just how out of touch with reality are these motherfuckers? Was he just being glib, or does he think equalizing the playing field by bringing everyone down - with the tens/hundreds thousands of deaths - would be worth it?
In Iran a few years back, one of their big shot Imams said that the losses of millions of Iranians' lives (up to half of the population) to a nuclear exchange with Israel would be acceptable in exchange for the elimination of Israel. Somehow, this idiot reminds me of that.
bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)Radical right free market wacko ... more hair than brains
LaurenOlimina
(1,165 posts)KSNY
(315 posts)irisblue
(32,916 posts)58Sunliner
(4,372 posts)appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)Breathe deep, Ricky! Grab a thermometer
thesquanderer
(11,970 posts)2% of all INFECTED people dying is ENORMOUSLY different than 2% of the ENTIRE POPULATION dying (i.e. if you turned the entire population into infected people). We're not ALL going to get infected naturally.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)iluvtennis
(19,825 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)world wide wally
(21,734 posts)Javaman
(62,497 posts)maddogesq
(1,245 posts)Always has been.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)What a tool.
appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Unbelievable.
Hekate
(90,530 posts)riversedge
(70,047 posts)TygrBright
(20,753 posts)earthside
(6,960 posts)Airlift him onto the Grand Princess.
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Midnight Writer
(21,693 posts)Worked for Trump, Limbaugh, many others.
Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,138 posts)His ideas are ridiculously dangerous for America and the world.
Here's how this works. Because the coronavirus spreads so wildly (almost 4 times more people are infected per each sick person) and it kills 20 times as many people per infected person as the influenza, we have no choice but to institute quarantine like China so we don't have an explosion of cases that lead to an explosion of deaths before we have a chance to develop treatments and vaccines.
SmartVoter22
(639 posts)Complain to CNBC.
Santelli crossed a serious journalistic line by calling for mass infection of a potentially deadly disease. Ask that he be fired.
We can complain here, but doing that at his employer is much better.
I did.
https://cnbc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000260093