Rick Santelli Has Coronavirus Solution: Deliberately Infect Everybody And Let Darwin Sort It Out

Outside of market circles, Rick Santelli is a nobody. And, really, he's a nobody in market circles too, but to market participants, he's a "known" nobody, so to speak. "Known" because for what feels like the last half-century, CNBC has allotted a few minutes each day for him to report live from Chicago, where he either i) acts mostly rational, muses about the incoming macro data and tells you how 10s are trading, or ii) rants and screams like a total lunatic about highly sensitive topics he ha

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5 thoughts on “Rick Santelli Has Coronavirus Solution: Deliberately Infect Everybody And Let Darwin Sort It Out

  1. I happened to catch this gem live when it aired. Rick’s comments were stunning, but perhaps even more stunning was what followed. In the group of guests they had on immediately after Rick’s segment, the first guest expressed her agreement with Rick’s comments. She did, however, add that it probably wasn’t a good idea because, you know, some people have pre-existing conditions. After that came another guest who posited that this was in fact no different from the standard flu, and we shouldn’t worry too much since it would all go away in a few weeks when the weather warmed up.

    So, you know, the usual CNBC shit-show.

  2. Given the estimated mortality rate (about 3.4%) and the world population (7.7 billion), he is suggesting we should just kill 260 million people. Thanks Rick… I think I know who we could let be the first…

  3. well, he does look over 60 and has a pre-existing condition (foot-in-mouth disease), so you may not even need to nudge him forward…

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