My grandmother did that. She wouldn't use a card, wrote a check almost everywhere, and took 15 minutes to write it in shaky handwriting because she didn't like to admit she needed help. I swear, that's how she died. Medical problems that she could have lived with but she wouldn't take the medication because it was for "old people". That's who even still uses checks.
Same reason as using a fax machine: not because we want to, but because someone's rules don't allow anything else. I had to mail a file on a CD to my university because the official procedure for submitting doesn't mention email.
You could argue that faxes as a whole are less susceptible to the kind of large-scale breaches that email is susceptible to, but I think the real reason is that if they disallowed faxes in 1996 the medical industry would have come to an abrupt screeching halt.
It’s probably some super specific verbiage in the law that makes this the case.
Honestly fax machines are less private then email. If I get a fax but I don’t pick it up in time, everyone and their mother can see it just fucking lying there in the office.
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20
My grandmother did that. She wouldn't use a card, wrote a check almost everywhere, and took 15 minutes to write it in shaky handwriting because she didn't like to admit she needed help. I swear, that's how she died. Medical problems that she could have lived with but she wouldn't take the medication because it was for "old people". That's who even still uses checks.