{"id":3841,"date":"2022-07-22T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2022-07-23T21:40:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T11:40:44","slug":"control-group-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/control-group-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"the control group bet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at how people behave around me, it feels like everyone is currently choosing their own control group &#8211; sick\/non(never)sick, vacced\/nonvacced, mingeling\/nonmingeling, masked\/nonmasked&#8230; <br>as <em>no one<\/em> can know what the future will reveal about all this, so everyone is making their own bet&#8230; risking (re-)infection over isolation(-in|sanity), risking long-term-impact over short term pleasure, choosing blissful or hapless ignorance over trying to navigate the flood of information coming in and changing every day&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m in the isolationist\/vacced\/nonsick\/nonmingeling\/masked control group&#8230; if that keeps me healthy but turns me into an irreparably anxious catweasel hermit, only time will tell&#8230; but if I can stay clear from this spread for another while longer I&#8217;m gladly following my introvert instincts and stay back&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">why the leadership team at work is still calling in the crowds to (voluntarily) join large indoor events is unclear to me, but I guess this is one way to find out which control group will do better&#8230; but looking at past events and outcomes it seems that showing up no matter what improves your career, whereas more considerate steps aiming at prevention are a clear show stopper of your career&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so you can stay healthy or rise up the corporate ladder&#8230; if you are really lucky you can do both, but it involves more risk taking than I am prepared to accept&#8230; so here we are, and I am watching on from the sidelines, and keep comparing the groups&#8230; but whichever way this pans out, I have already had my share of sickness, disease and long-term impact in life, I am not keen on adding to that, even if it means I will earn less or have a less fancy title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to be continued&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at how people behave around me, it feels like everyone is currently choosing their own control group &#8211; sick\/non(never)sick, vacced\/nonvacced, mingeling\/nonmingeling, masked\/nonmasked&#8230; as no one can know what the future will reveal about all this, so everyone is making their own bet&#8230; risking (re-)infection over isolation(-in|sanity), risking long-term-impact over short term pleasure, choosing blissful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[22,16],"class_list":["post-3841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-stuff-that-matters","tag-collective-delusions","tag-performance-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}