{"id":48373,"date":"2022-01-09T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48373"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T20:42:14","slug":"undefeated-no-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48373","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated, no longer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the many things I hate about very likely having COVID is whenever anyone insinuates that it\u2019s remotely close to okay, because the infection numbers are so rampant that it\u2019s almost inevitable that everyone will have caught a variant of it at some point.<\/span><\/p>\n

My response to that is that a loss is a loss, and there\u2019s no wiping a loss from your record, no matter how successful you are afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because I\u2019m me, everything is an analogy to sports or wrestling, and the way I see it, everyone who has managed to evade COVID as long as I and my household had, was basically undefeated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fewer things in competition are as hallowed as undefeated streaks, and there\u2019s little more frequent narrative of a streak to inevitably break, with it growing more and more value the longer it goes unbroken.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201872 Dolphins. DiMaggio\u2019s 56-game hit streak. Ripken\u2019s 2,632 consecutive game streak.\u00a0 The Oakland A\u2019s 20-game win streak. The Cleveland Indians\u2019 22-game win streak. Goldberg\u2019s 173-0 streak. Asuka\u2019s 914-day undefeated streak. The Undertaker\u2019s 21-0 Wrestlemania streak.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in my head, every single person who has managed to go without COVID since it came into existence, y\u2019all are also undefeated.\u00a0 And up until a week ago, my wife was.\u00a0 Up until more recently, so was I.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But now, (very, very likely) not anymore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No, it isn\u2019t the end of the world. My wife will recover. I will recover. We could thrive afterward. But it\u2019s still a loss on our records, and that will never go away.\u00a0 And I fucking hate it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in like 1995, I was playing a season NBA Live \u201895<\/em>. I wanted to have a season where the Orlando Magic went undefeated with my Penny Hardaway having 100% field goal percentage and averaging like 169 points a game and a triple-double.\u00a0 I put a lot of time into it, but after about 30 games, the game apparently didn\u2019t like such unrealistic conditions, and next thing I knew, I had a loss to the Seattle SuperSonics on my record and my Hardaway\u2019s numbers were all tarnished.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I quit the game.\u00a0 That and-1 was a loss that I couldn\u2019t expunge no matter if I won every single game afterward.\u00a0 It ruined the ultimate goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having the \u2018Rona brought into my home and infecting my household makes me feel like the 2007 Patriots.\u00a0 We were doing so well, only to be derailed and defeated by an unlikely party.\u00a0 And the worst part is, I highly doubt the offending party realizes just how much they\u2019ve fucked us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whereas they can go home to a childless environment with nobody but themselves to care to recover over, or any real demanding jobs to go to, mythical wife and I have two young kids to be mindful of, boatloads of duties that still have to get done no matter how addled we are; on top of our respective jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ask any parent how it feels to have to deny their kids an embrace that they want, and tell me that it\u2019s still \u201cfine\u201d that \u201ceveryone\u2019s going to get it eventually.\u201d\u00a0 Don\u2019t try and calm me down with that bullshit reassurance that everyone will get it or that Omicron isn\u2019t as lethal, because I will tell you to go fuck yourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is already very difficult as it is right now, but to throw fucking coronavirus into our mix, sounds like a pretty crushing loss and way to end an undefeated streak in a terrible fashion.\u00a0 I will always resent it, and unlike a video game, this loss on the record is permanent and there\u2019s no turning off and quitting it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the many things I hate about very likely having COVID is whenever anyone insinuates that it\u2019s remotely close to okay, because the infection numbers are so rampant that it\u2019s almost inevitable that everyone will have caught a variant of it at some point. My response to that is that a loss is a … Continue reading Undefeated, no longer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,62,59,100,194,45,71,106,105,58,54],"class_list":["post-48373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-baseball","tag-basketball","tag-comparison","tag-coronavirus","tag-fail","tag-famiry","tag-football","tag-rage","tag-sports","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48376,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48373\/revisions\/48376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}