Candace Owens thrives on controversy, and on Tuesday, the conservative loudmouth headed to Twitter to mock the “hysteria” surrounding the deadly coronavirus.
“One day, we will look back and study the impact of the coronavirus,” Owens tweeted. “Not the virus itself of course, but the mass global mental breakdown that it inspired. Because people think it’s novel that 80 year olds are dying at a high rate from a flu. This tweet will age well.”
She then retweeted that very same tweet, adding, “The average age of the hundreds of people that died in Italy— 82 years old. It is now breaking, terrifying, stop your life and stock up on toilet paper news— that 82 years old, with pre-existing conditions can die from the flu. The mass hysteria is unreal.”
Governments around the world have been advising citizens to limit their travels, and a slew of large-scale events have been scrapped over fear of the coronavirus spreading further.
In February, Owens made headlines when she stated that Sen. Bernie Sanders “best racist” in the Democratic primary presidential race.
Owens made the remarks during a debate on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle. Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell first tore into former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
But Owens told them that they should be keeping their eye on socialist Sanders instead.
“The good racist, the best racist on the left, by the way, is Bernie Sanders because he pretends to be their friend, he lies to black America’s face,” Owens told the panel.
“He knows he is going to be the one like Lyndon Baines Johnson, he’s Lyndon Baines Johnson 2.0, who is going to enact policies that are going to harm Black America for the next 100 years when he smiles in their faces, and he takes the bait.”
Sanders famously marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963.
