Within hours of the singer Meat Loaf‘s death on Thursday after a reported bout with COVID-19, some took to social media to mock his stances opposing mask and vaccine mandates.
Meat Loaf’s family and representatives have so far not confirmed either his cause of death or his vaccination status, but TMZ cited sources saying that he was ‘seriously ill with COVID’ when he passed.
Running with his stated opposition to mandates, many critics assumed that the famed singer was unvaccinated, and took the opportunity to heap scorn on him.
‘In the end, he finally let us know what that one thing was that he wouldn’t do for love: Get vaccinated,’ tweeted Gene Wu, a Democrat in the Texas state House of Representatives, referring to the lyrics of I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That).
‘Meat Loaf would do anything for love except get vaccinated,’ another Twitter user similarly tweeted.
