Saturday pharmacy computers stopped understanding e-prescriptions — grandmas defeated technology once again
Pharmacy systems across Europe crashed for several hours, but Liepāja grandmas with paper prescriptions smiled: 'We told you so!'
Saturday at lunchtime, a digital apocalypse broke out in pharmacies across Europe — e-prescriptions stopped working. While people in Riga panicked with their phones and tried to explain to pharmacists what a QR code is, the situation in Liepāja was much calmer.
'I already said these electric nonsense things wouldn't work!' comments Ausma from Karosta, who still uses good old paper prescriptions. 'My doctor, bless him, writes by hand. And you know what — his handwriting is worse than the graffiti on Karosta prison walls, but the pharmacist understands!'
The problem affected drug verification systems across Europe. This means computers couldn't verify whether medicines were genuine. In Liepāja, they comment pragmatically: 'We don't have counterfeit drugs here anyway — who would counterfeit citric acid tablets for 50 cents?'
After a few hours, everything worked again. But the grandmas in Karosta are already planning the next 'I-told-you-so' moment for when technology fails them again. 'Digital prescription... Well, fine, but does it help when your bones ache? No! Better to go to Karosta prison instead — at least the horrors there are real, not digital!'
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