A vocal opponent of Covid-19 vaccine mandates, singer Meat Loaf appears to have succumbed to the disease himself (death certificate hasn't been filed yet). As an obese 74 year-old, you'd think he would have chosen a wiser course, since he fit the profile as a prime risk for the illness. I have zero understanding of why entertainers think they're so much more knowledgeable about vaccine safety and efficacy than public health and medical experts. It's difficult to muster any empathy here. Hopefully his words and actions didn't lead to others losing their lives.

https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/21/meat-loaf-dead-dies-singer/

"...Our sources say Meat Loaf has been outspoken about COVID, railing with folks in Australia recently about vaccine mandates..."

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/4509131/meat-loaf-died-catching-covid/
"...just months before his death he declared "if I die, I die - I'm not going to be controlled" when discussing Covid.

In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published last August, he also labelled face masks a "nuisance".. ."

Well, it looks like the only thing to control him was the virus... 🙄

7 hours ago, unicorn said:

Hopefully his words and actions didn't lead to others losing their lives.

 

for sure they  did as he was popular and had his followers.

It's why so called celebrities should shut up and keep their counsel to themselves

And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
No, I won't do that

He should've done it....🤔

Leaving aside his being an antivaxxer, I am one of those who could never understand the appeal of Meat Loaf. To me he was just a silly oaf who could never sing in tune. If he did die of covid and has been preaching the anti-vaccine message, I have no sympathy for him.

For a period I was quite a fan, but a common risk with being regarded as a 'Rock God' is that they come to believe it themselves.

Grave worm chow alert: Meatloaf special this week! Messenger ribonucleic acid-free! 

The sad reality: if more anti-vaxxers die from Covid, the safer the world will be for the rest of us. 

 

I enjoyed him a bit, after all he was in Rocky Horror.

But, sad that he ended his life as an anti-vaxxer idiot. What a way to destroy your own legacy.

Eddie is gone for real.

 

 

https://pagesix.com/2022/01/26/howard-stern-meat-loafs-family-should-address-covid-19/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_7020316

"Howard Stern wants Meat Loaf’s family to speak out about COVID-19 vaccines — and believes the late singer got sucked into a “cult.” The “Bat Out of Hell” singer died earlier this month at 74, reportedly of COVID-19. The late rocker had been vigorously opposed to masking and vaccine mandates. In a recent interview last summer, Meat Loaf griped that masks are “useless. They don’t do anything. They don’t stop you from getting COVID. They’re just a nuisance and make your nose itch and make it so you can’t breathe.”

He added, “If I die, I die, but I’m not going to be controlled.” Speaking out about the performer’s death, Stern, 68, railed: “Poor Meat Loaf got sucked into some weird fucking cult. And somehow really believed that — he made a statement, ‘I’d rather die a free man than take that vaccine.’ And now he’s dead!” reports Uproxx. “I wish the family would come forward and say, ‘Ya know, when Meat Loaf was laying there in the hospital and he couldn’t breathe, he said, ‘I made a mistake,'” he continued. “‘I should have taken the vaccine.’ Like all these anti-vaxxers, they all say, ‘I made a mistake.'"

The widow of Meat Loaf (né Marvin Lee Aday), Deborah Gillespie, issued a statement following his passing writing, “The grief I feel over the loss of my husband is gut-wrenching.” However, she didn’t specify how her husband of nearly 15 years died. This isn’t the first time the self-proclaimed “King of All Media” has bashed anti-vaxxers. Earlier this month, he went on a tirade about controversial tennis champ Novak Djokovic, who was thrown out of Australia after petitioning for an exemption to the country’s vaccination requirement for noncitizens. “That fuck-nut … Djokovic. The Joker, I call him the Joker,” the shock jock fumed. “What a fucking asshole.”"

A Washington State Trooper told the governor to kiss his ass, he wasn't getting vaccinated. He is now dead from Covid.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/29/washington-trooper-who-defied-state-vaccine-mandate-and-told-gov-to-kiss-my-a-dies-from-covid-19/

God , let him rest in peace but we must notice that genetic pool improved again

On 1/22/2022 at 10:23 PM, RockHardNYC said:

The sad reality: if more anti-vaxxers die from Covid, the safer the world will be for the rest of us. 

I really just don't get it. I don't understand an adult believing the government is trying to fool them. Yes, we know the government is a bunch of liers. But, every government, everywhere?

 

On 1/29/2022 at 7:19 PM, TotallyOz said:

I don't understand an adult believing the government is trying to fool them. Yes, we know the government is a bunch of liers. But, every government, everywhere?

I sincerely doubt there are more liars in the U.S. government than there are in your own personal life. Human beings tend to lie when it's convenient, easy, or it will save their ass.

I know plenty of people who work for the U.S. government who care deeply about the work, this country, and the public service. Of course it's always the bad apples who ruin things for everyone.

But when you seriously think about large bureaucracies, especially the ones where employees come and go with each new administration, it's hard to imagine any mission that can be perfectly executed with so many hands coming and going. Run a business, any business, and find out how difficult it is to create a perfect execution. Or better yet, see how easy it is for just three people to keep your secret.

America's problem is education, and it has been a serious problem for decades. Republicans in particular prefer to keep their voters stupid and scared. As long as there are too many stupid, scared people running around, there is no way they will ever be able to wrap their brain around science. If the cross you want to bear is science-denial, then you just might die on that cross. It's proving true for many anti-vaxxers. 

 

Even if you believe every government is lying to you(idiotic in itself), it is beyond stupid to think that random memes on facebook and the like are suddenly the source of all truth.

8 hours ago, RockHardNYC said:

America's problem is education, and it has been a serious problem for decades.

I think this is a key issue that few seem to discuss. Literacy rates in the USA are presently estimated at 79%. Compare that with the literacy rate in the country the USA and its allies did its best to bomb into virtual oblivion. Vietnam's literacy rate for over 15s in 2018 was 95%. In that same year the rate in China was 96.8% with youth literacy rate (15-24 yo) at 99.7%.

https://knoema.com/atlas/China/topics/Education/Literacy/Adult-literacy-rate