Ann Coulter caught a bad case of ridicule after tweeting out contradictory coronavirus 'facts'

Two people who think they're much smarter and more clever than they really are

Ann Coulter’s heyday of being considered worth listening to has long since passed. In recent years, her big play has been to take a far right, extremist view of the world and then attempt an even more incendiary verbal vomit to the public. The conservative angle on COVID-19 is that things are being overblown and that, even though the mortality rate for people older than 65 is frightening, we should probably be ready to sacrifice our older citizens in order to keep billionaires in billions. Well, Ann Coulter has news to own the libs! It turns out that according to Ann and this very nifty graph she has provided, “for people under 60, coronavirus is LESS dangerous than the seasonal flu.” So there. Let’s take a look at that graph, Ann.

For people under 60, coronavirus is LESS dangerous than the seasonal flu: pic.twitter.com/3EFzUSaOVo

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 24, 2020

Oh. On top of being a racist idiot, it turns out that Ann Coulter might not be able to read and definitely cannot understand how numbers work. As the graph very clearly shows—at least based on the numbers coming out of South Korea, one of the best test areas for this virus—with the exception of people under 30, the mortality rate is considerably higher for those suffering from COVID-19 versus people with the “seasonal flu.”

Here’s a quick math lesson for Coulter:

0.4 is more than 0.06 - a little less than 10x more.

— screamingmd (@screamingmd) March 24, 2020

But maybe Coulter just needs a little more focus?

Read the fucking chart

— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) March 24, 2020

And a more involved math lesson with red ink for Ms. Coulter:

Here @AnnCoulter I fixed it for you: pic.twitter.com/4ZTr5LJKCg

— Teapot Dome was Amateur Hour! (@HarrenGWarding) March 24, 2020

And because Ann Coulter is a shitty racist:

As a representative of the master race, one would think you’d be smarter than this.

— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) March 24, 2020

And something a little bit more funny in these trying times:

MATH IS FREAKIN' HARD (and your chart shows EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what you claim). pic.twitter.com/xIY3oWrIZF

— Teapot Dome was Amateur Hour! (@HarrenGWarding) March 24, 2020

And because this is one of the great moments in cinema history:

pic.twitter.com/wr0R25XJCm

— Drain The Trumps 🇺🇸 (@DrainTheTrumps) March 24, 2020

This response does sum up a lot of the sentiment around Ann Coulter:

You are such a goddamned moron lol

— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) March 24, 2020

And finally, the terrible terrible truth of it all:

pic.twitter.com/FmzAGm1SgP

— Flatten The Curve! WashYourHands! (@haleakela19) March 24, 2020