By Ted Johnson 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 the economy. “It was just a stupid thing to say.
It is not appropriate in this instance, and we are resilient, both in the United States and in the globe, and that resilience will get us through.
The idea of something so absurd, I just apologize, and I apologize to everyone on this segment and all my peers at CNBC. We will get through this.
We are resilient. But even if one life is affected, I do apologize for my insensitivity.” On Thursday, Santelli said on The Exchange that “maybe we’d just be better off if we gave it to everybody and then in a month
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