Rick Santelli of CNBC says giving every American coronavirus would settle the markets

Rick Santelli apparently wants many people to perish so the stock market will stabilize.

Santelli, an on-air editor at CNBC, said Thursday on the network’s “The Exchange” that every person in the country should be administered the coronavirus so the “global and domestic economies” would be “better off.”

As the Dow Jones finished the day down almost 1,000 points, Santelli offered the caveat that he was “not a doctor” before offering up his opinion on what should be done with the epidemic in order to settle the markets.

“All I know is, think about how the world would be if you tried to quarantine everybody because of the generic-type flu,” he said as the death toll climbed to 12 in the United States. “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.”

Assuming the most conservative estimates of 0.5% mortality, this is a call for the death of 37,500,000 people world wide or or 1,750,000 Americans, all in order to shore up the stock market. https://t.co/0akgVl1J9v

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 5, 2020

Santelli is widely credited with helping ignite the Tea Party movement in 2009 with a similiar speech.

I figured Rick Santelli would still be yelling about the rising federal deficit like he did when I was at CNBC in 2009 but apparently that only applies when the black guy is president. https://t.co/MGzBJHsqG8

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) March 6, 2020

Trump: Corona-flu is not serious, go to work if you have it, WHO numbers are fake.

Investors: Dump stocks as president makes clear he's not going to deal with this.

Rick Santelli: Meh, let's just kill millions so stock prices go up.

Too many Republicans are inhuman monsters.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 5, 2020

Hey @CNBC maybe take some time & educate Rick Santelli about hospital capacity & the extreme decline in quality of care & resources when they're overloaded with patients. His suggesting that the mortality rate wouldn't go up if everyone got it all once is absurd. #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/MPINxsQPEy

— Jim Hall (@jhall) March 5, 2020