Meat Loaf was ‘seriously ill’ with COVID days before his death: report

NY Post ^ | 1/21/2022 | Lee Brown

[Callahan]

Rock legend Meat Loaf was “seriously ill” with COVID-19 just days before his death Thursday, according to a report.

Sources told TMZ that the 74-year-old “Bat Out of Hell” star was due to attend a business dinner earlier this week for a show he is working on based on his classic hit, “I’d Do Anything for Love.”

But he canceled because he was seriously ill with COVID-19, with his condition soon becoming critical, the outlet’s sources said.

It was not clear if he had been vaccinated. Reps for the star did not immediately return requests for comment early Friday...

The singer and actor, real name Michael Lee Aday, had become outspoken about COVID — ripping lockdowns and mask mandates last August in one of his last interviews.

“If I die, I die, but I’m not going to be controlled,” the rocker told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

RIP Mr. Loaf.

[JudyinCanada]

I know it sounds nuts, but I have actually wondered if they can somehow actually target these well-known people who speak out against the lockdowns, mandates, and especially vaccines.

[Wuli]

Obesity and its relationship to the dynamics between the heart and lungs.

[napscoordinator]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/meat-loaf-scared-death-covid-26015243.amp

He was anti vaccine so he probably didn’t take it.

[Track9]

I’ve thought the same.

[left that other site]

“If I die, I die, but I’m not going to be controlled,”

He and I are on the same page. RIP,and thank you for the Music.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I know it sounds nuts, but I have actually wondered if they can somehow actually target these well-known people who speak out against the lockdowns, mandates, and especially vaccines."

You're not the only person to whom that thought has occurred.

[Olog-hai]

But he canceled because he was seriously ill with COVID-19, with his condition soon becoming critical, the outlet’s (TMZ) sources said. …

Oh, anonymous sources again. And they wonder why nobody trusts the media.

[surroundedbyblue]

Obese people have higher levels of interleukin-6, which is a pro inflammatory cytokine. When the cytokine storm of COVID hits around day 6, it hits them pretty hard

[Terry L Smith]

cor al the years, the songs, the sweat of brow and body, i thank you, mr. meat loaf, r.i.p.

[setter]

“Obesity and its relationship to the dynamics between the heart and lungs.”

Meatloaf lost a lot of weight years ago 2015-2016. He did not look healthy in the photos..the look when fat people lose too much.

[saturn]

Do you think when President Trump along with a bunch of Republicans got it, that it was an accident? I think it was an assassination attempt, no dems got it at the same time if I remember correctly.

[sanjuanbob]

You’ve been around here since 1999 so they’re coming for you first. /s

[peggybac]

How obese was he? It appears he lost a lot of weight since his early days.

[digger48]

I see that in my own mirror. 260 to 150

Not a pretty or healthy looking sight, I assure you

[Maudeen]

Good point.

[fireman15]

I know it sounds nuts, but I have actually wondered if they can somehow actually target these well-known people who speak out against the lockdowns, mandates, and especially vaccines.

That is not only not nuts... any public figure who goes against the narrative is going to be exposed to coronavirus intentionally by someone. I had a conversation with my neighbors the other day. They were quoting Justice Sotomayor and CNN in general only on steroids... they said that hundreds of thousands of kids were in the hospital dying from Omicron. When I said that this was propaganda; we had an "invasion of the body snatchers" moment with all of them turning on me at once.

These people are motivated beyond fear for themselves they will strike out against others even if they are not government agents. A huge number of people would go out of their way to infect a neighbor but especially a celebrity for speaking out against the narrative if given any opportunity.

[Atticus]

“I know it sounds nuts, but I have actually wondered if they can somehow actually target these well-known people who speak out against the lockdowns, mandates, and especially vaccines.”

Yes. It is nuts. And unfortunately FreeRepublic has become an echo chamber for such nutty ruminations. Such nuttiness discredits thoughtful criticism of mandates and legitimate questions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Meatloaf was not targeted by the Deep State, Biden, Fauci, Bill Gates or the Bogey Man. He was a victim of a Chinese made bio weapon and happened to be one of the unlucky ones. If he was unvaccinated, he exercised his personal choice, took a calculated gamble, possibly a reasonable one, and lost.

[Tommy Revolts]

I know it sounds nuts, but I have actually wondered if they can somehow actually target
these well-known people who speak out against the lockdowns, mandates, and
especially vaccines.

It doesn't sound nuts to me.