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Rick Santelli Calls for Infecting Global Population with Coronavirus

5 points by new_guy 7y ago

new_guy 7y ago
Full title: 'This Is Your Brain on Capitalism': CNBC Market Analyst Rick Santelli Calls for Infecting Global Population With Coronavirus to Help Wall Street | "The projected death of 11 million Americans would be a fair price to pay for better long term stock growth, says a capitalist extremist."
dv_dt 7y ago
Not only is this morally wrong, the benefit analysis is fundamentally incorrect.
rolph 7y ago
old school vaccine used attenuated virus, basically viable virions that have been given a beating so that they are not as pathogenic but elicit immune response. that is the only hope of getting out of the pile this one steps into. that isnt the case, this article here seems to indicate someone thinks we should; either all play "ookiemouth"; or ignore the virus and back to business as usual, or as others have suggested "go back to work"
IanDrake 7y ago
Typical Socialist BS. Greedy Capitalist calls for the death of millions. Just read the headline and trust our analysis. Except Santelli was clearly (but poorly) trying to argue that Coronavirus isn't that big a deal, as we'll all find out eventually. He wasn't actually proposing or "calling" to infect everyone. He was just saying it will take months for people to realize how small an issue this is and infecting everyone would shortcut that time table, very tongue in cheek.
SlipperySlope 7y ago
Similar arguments existed for making tobacco products available worldwide. The increased mortality affected primarily the old and killed them quickly - reducing net Social Security and Medicare costs in the USA. However, the elderly deserve reasonable measures to keep them alive as a foundation of the multi-generational contract between productive young and consuming old people. True that Sanstelli's short sightedness highlights an aspect of capitalism, but his proposition could not actually occur because capitalism puts capital into the hands of its best custodians - the old for the most part. And these custodians would correctly spend capital on themselves to preserve their health. The markets of course will eventually recover to new highs, and the common sense hygiene practices will serve to save the lives of perhaps tens of thousands from influenza mortality.

5 points by new_guy 7y ago

Full title: 'This Is Your Brain on Capitalism': CNBC Market Analyst Rick Santelli Calls for Infecting Global Population With Coronavirus to Help Wall Street | "The projected death of 11 million Americans would be a fair price to pay for better long term stock growth, says a capitalist extremist."

dv_dt 7y ago

Not only is this morally wrong, the benefit analysis is fundamentally incorrect.

rolph 7y ago

old school vaccine used attenuated virus, basically viable virions that have been given a beating so that they are not as pathogenic but elicit immune response. that is the only hope of getting out of the pile this one steps into. that isnt the case, this article here seems to indicate someone thinks we should; either all play "ookiemouth"; or ignore the virus and back to business as usual, or as others have suggested "go back to work"

IanDrake 7y ago

Typical Socialist BS. Greedy Capitalist calls for the death of millions. Just read the headline and trust our analysis. Except Santelli was clearly (but poorly) trying to argue that Coronavirus isn't that big a deal, as we'll all find out eventually. He wasn't actually proposing or "calling" to infect everyone. He was just saying it will take months for people to realize how small an issue this is and infecting everyone would shortcut that time table, very tongue in cheek.

SlipperySlope 7y ago

Similar arguments existed for making tobacco products available worldwide. The increased mortality affected primarily the old and killed them quickly - reducing net Social Security and Medicare costs in the USA. However, the elderly deserve reasonable measures to keep them alive as a foundation of the multi-generational contract between productive young and consuming old people. True that Sanstelli's short sightedness highlights an aspect of capitalism, but his proposition could not actually occur because capitalism puts capital into the hands of its best custodians - the old for the most part. And these custodians would correctly spend capital on themselves to preserve their health. The markets of course will eventually recover to new highs, and the common sense hygiene practices will serve to save the lives of perhaps tens of thousands from influenza mortality.