The Gods of Computers: Coronavirus DHL

A Story by Abishai100

Three gods convene to examine how they can help man use modern resources to defy the gloom of the 21st Century Coronavirus pandemic!

Here's one more Coronavirus-diorama, and it was inspired by the dystopian film Hackers! Thanks fo reading (signing off),

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The gods of the heavens decided to confer to preserve life on Earth during the impressive global Coronavirus pandemic which had infected over 200,000 people and killed over 10,000 people within quite a short period of time in the 21st Century! The gods, Shiva (god of destruction) worked with his two wife-goddesses Durga (goddess of wisdom) and Kali (goddess of anarchy) to see how they'd foster life on Earth so their children (Kartik, Ganesha) and the human youngsters on Earth would feel hopeful about the world as humans were quarantined and only vital institutions (supermarkets, post-offices, police stations, hospitals, laundromats, etc.) were kept open and everyone worked from home using online access to office terminals! This was a real challenge to the way of life, which is why these gods of the heavens wanted to be creative in offering the world hope and sanity!

Durga decided to take the appearance of an anti-terrorist American female paramilitary crusader named Scarlett. Shiva took the form of a cybernetic Internet defender named Mega-Man. Kali took the form of a psychic feminist named Rogue. As Scarlett, Mega-Man, and Rogue began to work in the world, trying to disseminate ideas about networks and working life while the Coronavirus claimed more and more lives, everyone was curious to see the shape of survival in this time of great global intrigue! Scarlett, Mega-Man, and Rogue wanted to use the resources available to humans to create healthy perspectives on diligence...and decisions.

The Coronavirus was related to the SARS virus which affected many in 2003, the early part of the 21st Century before waning. The hope now was that the Coronavirus would wane within 1 year and claim no more than 1 million lives, but its rapid infection rate simply frightened everyone! That's why Scarlett (Durga), Mega-Man (Shiva), and Rogue (Kali) wanted to help humans deal with institutional ideas to create a home-quarantine life conducive to fresh views on sustainability, patience, hygiene, social trust, economic assistance programs, and total species direction.

Scarlett, Mega-Man, and Rogue decided to visit the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California (USA) and work closely with the biochemistry lab in developing a ribavarin-related medical treatment plan, multi-pronged of course, for the treatment of the Coronavirus which inhibited the respiratory system and created serious problems for the immune system! Scarlett, Mega-Man, and Rogue worked with Salk scientists to develop plans for the distribution of vital virus information to the public, via Internet, and cast a disclosure model of lifestyle and quarantine advice and prescription 'package' endorsed by Salk and the White House. This would cast the Salk Institute as one of the key scientific-medical bodies in human civilization working actively to make the Coronavirus a thing of diaries...and disclosure!

Scarlett, Mega-Man, and Rogue then visited the National Geographic Channel (TV) headquarters and endorsed a special plan to ensure that the iconic nature-programming television network would offer audiences symbolic pro-Earth shows and specials during this globalized quarantine, when no one would be able to liberally go outside and therefore have to spend most of their time indoors! The National Geographic Channel (NGC) was a 'photojournalism package' offering humans a way to think of this Coronavirus-quarantine experience in terms of 'dioramic' imagination! This was actually good diction.

Hygiene was very important to Coronavirus prevention and prescription. Washing one's hands or wearing protective gloves or masks in work environments outdoors prevented the infection from spreading liberally! Anti-bacterial soaps and gloves and masks ensured that everyone remained clean while working in the public offices and institutions such as hospitals and supermarkets. After all, humans cared about the quality of disease-detention dreams!

As more and more people began staying at home and working from home using computers/Internet, kids stayed home from school and used the Internet to connect to school-lessons online! This was the marvel of the modern age, after all, and people found the conveniences of home-life networking. There was a special 'magic' to the use of these grid tools. That's why Scarlett (Durga), Mega-Man (Shiva), and Rogue (Kali) wanted kids taking school lessons from home to have access to these modern 'toys' to appreciate the ergonomics of Coronavirus pandemic defiance! Imagination was the key.

As the Coronavirus waned, and humans continued to wrestle successfully with the shape and color of globalized teamwork in this time of great social tribulation, Durga, Shiva, and Kali decided to return to the heavens, confident that human civilization would now work out the contours of pandemic psychology! On Earth, comic books about Shiva became popular, as youngsters hoped to celebrate the kind of 'rugged naturalism' espoused by the great meditative god of the destruction in the mountains and sought to share campfire tales of the shape of worldly defiance.

Responsible scientific educational institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and modern computing companies such as IBM (International Business Machines) played a major role in this time of Coronavirus quarantine and home-life decision-making. The Internet kept the world running and enabled people to work safely from home by connecting to office terminals with running cyber-signals! Durga (Scarlett), Shiva (Mega-Man), and Kali (Rogue) thought about how the Coronavirus shock ironically created great global respect towards the modern marvel of Internet design!

Even though restaurants were closed, people purchased food online and cooked at home and celebrated the simple joys of resilience and comfort-cooking. Sustenance interests made home-life a thing of cool dialogue. People shared recipes with each other over email.

Sports Illustrated magazine showcased its earlier feature Swimsuit Issue piece on the iconic American Barbie doll, a symbol of consumerism in the modern world, as a testament to how surviving the Coronavirus-quarantine required impressive human imagination regarding mankind's creation of 'lifestyle-matrix' dolls and crafts. Since it was the 'net' that helped humans defy Coronavirus depression, it was 'net dolls' that reminded humans of the splendor of daydreams!

Of course, with every human challenge there comes a spiritual danger, and this time, it came in the form of kids indulging too much in video-games while reveling in the fact that their parents were working from home and they were receiving school lessons from home on the Internet! Kids wanted to revel in the indulgence of 'computer/digital ornamentation' by enjoying video-games which suddenly became civilization symbols of home-quarantine diarism. This boosted online sales of various sci-fi video-games presenting dystopian avatars of adventure and calamity such as the prowling terrifying Xenomorph!