CNBC analyst Rick Santelli wants entire world to be infected with coronavirus to help Wall Street

[deltaecho]

Isn’t it more of a “saying the quiet part loud”?

@Michael_Lavin

In cases of severe infection the infected person needs oxygen or a respirator to stay alive. If everyone were infected the same day, the hospitals would not have enough beds to help these severe cases. If the rate of infection is low and cases are spread out over time, hospitals may have a better chance of saving more severe cases.

So what you’re saying is, you’re anti-Darwinian mass-infection of entire population in aid of stock traders.

[euansmith]

But the 1% would have all the medical equipment they would need, so only unimportant people would die, and the glorious Libertarian future doesn’t need those losers.

“…the mortality rate of this probably isn’t going to be any different if we did it that way than the long-term picture…”

People live in the short-term.

@Mister44

I think his point was more to just get the whole crisis over with in one month so that everything can get back to normal.

Hey, this sounds just like Brexit Thinking!

[dommerdoodle]

While I understand your post, in trying to figure out his mental state, I won’t make excuses for this cretin. The US and the financial markets would be better off if he was the first victim of the Covid-19 virus he wants everyone to get.

[gmoke]

Has Santelli infected himself with coronavirus yet? If not, then he has no integrity.

But I guess we already knew that. Santelli is the news screamer who helped start the Tea Party movement, in case you forgot.

[DukeTrout]

@Carbonman

(hockey arenas are good coolers for large numbers of the dead).

Do you want zombie hockey? Because that’s how you get zombie hockey.

[Carbonman]

Quick, lock up the skates and hockey sticks!

[RickMycroft]

@Carbonman

(hockey arenas are good coolers for large numbers of the dead).

Oh man, that ice is contaminated enough already!

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[RickMycroft]

@Shuck

Even the wealth would be fucked as you’d have a breakdown of the systems that protect them (and even if they can afford private alternatives, those would be overwhelmed as well).

Rick and Morty single centralized galactic currency drops to zero

[Wanderfound]

@teknocholer

There is precedent in the 14th century.

There is precedent in the 20th century.

There’s a grand old hotel/resort (now somewhat dilapidated) in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney called the Hydro Majestic. The reason it was built was to provide a retreat for wealthy people to take a holiday whenever there was a disease outbreak in the slums of the city.