My friend Joe Krokus died of COVID today. He was young. He was healthy. He was a Dad. He was a Son. He was a Brother. He was once a Chippendales Dancer. I was with him in New York City March 12, 2020. The day the World Shut down. We had meetings for 451 Degrees and The City was in chaos of sorts. We started early in the morning. He said, āMan, Patrick you are going to get the REAL New York City today. It is going to get freaky, I can tellā¦this is when the crazy side of New York comes alive.ā Well it did get more strange and dark as the day went on. Our last meeting was on the 35th Floor in a conference room in Bryant Park. When we checked into the lobby, the security team told us there were only 10 people in a 40 story building. We actually chuckled in the empty conference room in the empty building about āthe fluā. Whelp, here we are today. Death is REAL and FOREVER. COVID is REAL and people are still dying. Today I lost a friend, a co-worker. This is Joe Krokus. He has left behind a 14 year old son named Grayson. A mother, siblings and many lost friends as well. Why are we lost? Because this was preventable! Joe did not get vaccinated but he told me, āPat, I wish I would of, tell everyone to get vaccinatedā¦I just want to see my kid again and be back to normalā. He went to visit his mother in Florida because he wanted his son to spend time with family. He never made it back to New York. This was preventable. Sure you can still get āsickā but if you do not get the vaccine you risk a much more serious reaction and possible death. Do this for yourself. Do this for your loved ones. Do this for your friends. Today I hurt. Fuck your politics! Fuck your Religion! Fuck your bitching about a mask mandate and how difficult it makes your life. Fuck your belief that you are all of a sudden smarter than the scientists and SCIENCE! Recognize the truth. This isnāt political. This isnāt religious. This is real and it KILLS more than any fluā¦who knows of a healthy person at a young age dying of the flu? (at New York City U.S.A.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTL7O9ArXvO/?utm_medium=tumblr