CNBC's Santelli Said In Order To Reduce The Economic Impact 'We Should Just Give Everyone The Corona

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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

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"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]

1. Yeah...makes perfect sense (to a moron)

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]

2. I grew up in a time when the stock market was for aristocrats, hustlers and geeks

People who either didn't want attention or nobody wanted to hear from. That part of the era was quite nice.

[appalachiablue]

29. The banking sector was safe, steady & relatively 'boring' until

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]

31. Now idiots like Santelli affect your retirement security

Unless you’re one of the dwindling number of people with a defined benefit pension. I wish more people objected to that concept.

[appalachiablue]

32. Right, we're more involved with stock mkt reports for 401Ks

since the assault on unions and pensions beginning with Raygun.

[appalachiablue]

3. CNBC's Rick Santelli, Editor

*WATCH* (43 sec).

[CaptYossarian]

6. Did someone clone Chris Cilizza?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. He's the Tea Party originator idiot

"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]

4. Let Santelli take one for the team first.

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]

5. Oh, Jesus the Christed one!

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]

7. Can they fire him for dishumanitarian STUPIDITY?

Radical right free market wacko ... more hair than brains

[LaurenOlimina]

8. Spoken like a true capitalist!

[KSNY]

9. What happens when the market is your moral (and intellectual) compass.

[irisblue]

10. him first, then his family and beloveds

[58Sunliner]

11. Something a sociopath would say. It must be all about his portfolio. I hope karma comes calling.

[appalachiablue]

12. +1

[bucolic_frolic]

13. All-Volunteer Human Corona Trials await Private Santelli's enlistment

Breathe deep, Ricky! Grab a thermometer

[thesquanderer]

14. Stupid! Even if you accept the ridiculous premise of infecting everyone, mortality is NOT the same!

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]

15. So Tea Party Santelli wants to infect everyone like a terrorist, well. typical repuke. nt

[iluvtennis]

16. What an idiot.

[yaesu]

17. opinion piece, not news, but does show the length the fascist banksters will go to save theirownskin

[world wide wally]

18. ALL these assholes ever think about is "what works out best for Trump"?

[Javaman]

19. you first. nt

[maddogesq]

20. He's such a hack.

Always has been.

[BlueIdaho]

21. He said that out loud?

What a tool.

[appalachiablue]

23. He said it on air yesterday. Video clip in #3

[BlueIdaho]

33. Thank You!

Unbelievable.

[Hekate]

22. As long as he and his family go first

[riversedge]

24. He is as dangerous as Trump

[TygrBright]

25. TEH STOOPID... IT BURRRRRNNZZZZ!!! n/t

[earthside]

26. Santelli first.

Airlift him onto the Grand Princess.

[Midnight Writer]

30. Conservative media technique. Say something outrageously dickish and get famous.

Worked for Trump, Limbaugh, many others.

[Crabby Appleton]

34. You go first, I'll hold your beer! Nt

[truthisfreedom]

35. He should be arrested for suggesting that we kill off 3% of the population immediately.

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]

36. Complain at CNBC - Link here

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

[appalachiablue]

37. Thanks, here's hoping

[TexasBushwhacker]

38. You and your family first Rick n/t