“It was the dumbest, most ignorant, stupid thing anybody could have ever said.”Santelli, who was an early Tea Party leader, made the comment Thursday on CNBC’s “The Exchange” when he was asked about a market sell-off amid widespread fear over the coronavirus.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC.
The idea of something so absurd, I apologize and I apologize to everybody on the segment and all my peers at CNBC.”You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter!CNBC did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.“Yesterday, during a segment on ‘The Exchange, ‘I said ‘maybe it would be a good idea to expose everybody to the coronavirus, maybe it would be better off for the economy, the global economy or the markets in general,’” Santelli said of his comment that sparked outrage and calls for CNBC to fire him. “Maybe we’d just be better off if we just gave it to everybody and then in a month it would be over, because the mortality rate of this probably wouldn’t be any different if we did it that way than the long-term picture,” he said Thursday.“It was just a stupid thing to say,” he said. That resilience will get us through.
CNBC's Rick Santelli apologized on Friday for suggesting that "maybe we'd be better off" if everyone were infected with the coronavirus because it would shorten the impact on … CNBC editor Rick Santelli apologized Friday, March 6, 2020, for making the “dumbest, most ignorant” on-air suggestion that “everyone” should get the novel coronavirus. Long-time CNBC editor Rick Santelli has apologized for suggesting that everyone should be exposed to the coronavirus — to get it over with now — in order to protect the health of global and domestic markets. Now I’m not saying this is the generic-type flu, but maybe we’d just be better off if we just gave [the coronavirus] to everybody and then in a month it would be over, because the mortality rate of this probably wouldn’t be any different if we did it that way than the long-term picture," Santelli said, “But the difference is we’re wreaking havoc on domestic and global economies.”Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inboxSantelli recalled people who purposely exposed family members to illnesses such as measles and chickenpox to “expedite the process” when he was young.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. We are resilient, but even if one life is affected, I do apologize for my insensitivity.” He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. All market data delayed 20 minutes. https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnbc-rick-santelli-coronavirus-apology All market data delayed 20 minutes.The outlandish theory was not questioned by CNBC host Kelly Evans, who instead followed up with a question about 10-year yields dropping.Public health officials and cyber experts fear the coronavirus 'infodemic' could end up being more dangerous than the actual virus; Gillian Turner reports.“It was just a stupid thing to say,” he said. view in app--Shares. The idea of something so absurd, I just apologize and I apologize to everybody on the segment and all my peers at CNBC. Rick Santelli is an American on-air editor for the CNBC Business News Network.
All I know is, Think of how the world would be if you tried to quarantine everybody over the generic-type flu. That resilience will get us through. I’m not a doctor.