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I lost my beloved Mac Plus, the computer that made me become a programmer, because of COVID. Shortly before COVID hit, I fired it up to see if it still worked,
by pmarreck 1y ago
I lost my beloved Mac Plus, the computer that made me become a programmer, because of COVID.
Shortly before COVID hit, I fired it up to see if it still worked, and within like a minute, a certain capacitor (that is a common and well-known failure point) fried, and it was dead. I brought it to a computer repair store to fix, and then COVID and its lockdowns hit.
When I returned months later to see what was up after my phone calls weren't returned, turns out the whole place had shut down and I to this day have no idea where my Mac Plus went. :/
- wwweston 1y agoSounds like your Mac Plus died with covid (and really irresponsible customer property management), but not from covid…
- dylan604 1y agoout of curiosity, did you really think the GP thought COVID killed the computer which is an inanimate object that required this level of pedantry?
- elzbardico 1y agoHe was making a pun on the common practice during COVID of attributing death in death to certificates to COVID whenever the patient presented a positive PCR test, no matter the real cause of death, the actual existence of COVID disease in clinical terms or the existence of more preeminent factors in the death. This usually happened due mostly as a result of federal policy of paying out extra money for hospitals based on the number of covid patients, thus creating an incentive of diagnosing anyone with a positive PCR test as sick from covid, whether they presented actual clinical symptoms of the disease or not.
- breakingcups 1y agoThat seems made up, do you have a credible source for that?
- reaperducer 1y agoSounds made up to me, too. Unless he lives in some country where that happened. In many places in the United States it was unusual for COVID to be listed as a cause of death in paperwork. Often it was listed a something coronary or pulmonary. This isn't unique to COVID, but happened a lot more with that disease, especially before there were vaccines and the stigma was stronger. The actual number of COVID deaths is estimated because policies varied so much among different political jurisdictions. Source: Work in the healthcare industry, and had relatives die of COVID who ended up with something else listed on their death certificates.
- martey 1y agoYou're correct, but "hospitals overcounted COVID deaths and the pandemic wasn't that bad" is unfortunately a conspiracy theory: https://kffhealthnews.org/news/how-covid-death-counts-become-the-stuff-of-conspiracy-theories/ https://kffhealthnews.org/news/how-covid-death-counts-become...
- reaperducer 1y agoWell, at least they acknowledge there was a pandemic. There's still plenty of people who don't believe 1,100,000 Americans died of COVID. These same people also wonder why it suddenly became harder to find workers.
- iisan7 1y agomy understanding/recollection is that it was necessary for surveillance to note when decedents had COVID; it was listed as a (contributing or underlying, not sure of the jargon) cause, and so depending on how you cut the data you could count it either way -- tally all deaths with COVID as deaths from COVID (bigger), or only those where COVID was the main cause (smaller).
- jedberg 1y agoUnless they edited their comment, they never said it died from COVID, but because of COVID.
- yabani 1y agoHow
- bigyabai 1y agoCapacitors die. The original Xbox notoriously suffers from this issue; very few will boot up nowadays without a hardware fix.
- rzzzt 1y ago"RIFA madness"?
- TacticalCoder 1y ago[dead]