When the Universe conspires..

Never thought I would write a blog when the world was in complete disarray. But, as it turns out, the crisis has well and truly begun.

Who would have thought before few months that we would all leave our regular topics of discussion - Politics (read Pro-CAA or Anti-CAA for Indians), Sports, Entertainment,  and move under one umbrella – The COVID-19.

I read it somewhere - China did the unthinkable by uniting the world. Something which only China could have done. Some conspiracy theories may say that it was a Chinese masterplan gone haywire and it was an experiment with viruses that proved costly. But as days pass by, it is becoming increasingly clear that it is, indeed, the conspiracy of the Universe to provide a fitting lesson to human race. 

COVID-19 might be one problem for all of us but let's have a quick look at what it has corrected.

• A news report read - The Nitrogen Dioxide levels in usually polluted regions of the world, have gone down drastically because of the lockdown due to the virus. No vehicles on roads. No impact on carbon footprint, you see.

• A joke by a man read - Staying at home would mean my wife kills me before the virus can. Keeping the humour aside, the universe seems to have conspired to let people spend more time with their families. With their kids. At their homes!

• Companies are starting to learn how important it is to liberate employees by letting them work remotely. Wow mother nature, thank you for that!

• Governments and their abilities are being tested dramatically by this virus. Are they capable of handling a crisis? Or not? Surely many would lose their next elections if they mis-manage this one. This is Universe’s way of saying – Let me show you who really cares for you! And who is capable of looking after you!

• It is confirmed that this virus predominantly kills relatively older people. This was the universe's way of saying - Well, I thought the average life span of 80-100 years was too high for you guys. Let's make it 60?  You weren't doing anything good for the planet anyways.

• Many reports claim that the virus has originated from a wet market. Universe says - Man, I gave you this world, with (5+1)th sense so you could save my other children - The animals. But you are anyways destroying the forests and killing them and making a meal out of it. It was high time I planted a revenge for them. Here it is!  Take that!

• And finally– Universe says - Folks, you were anyways fighting amongst yourselves. Black vs White. Upper caste vs Lower caste. One religion vs another. You weren't shaking hands, anyways right? Let me set the rules again. From now on, you touch no one. You don't shake hands with *ANYONE*.

Looks like Nature has set the world on a ROLLBACK mode. And it is setting each and everything in order. Maybe it's a bigger lesson for all of us? Let's wait and let the action unfold!!

For now, a DevOps engineer like me - who works on Continuation Integration and Continuous Deployment - would read this virus as CORONA - COntinuous ROllback by NAture !!!