Coronavirus US: People try microwaving library books amid virus fears:
A US library took to Facebook to share their outrage over people's latest attempts to disinfect public property, like library books.
"Noooooooo!!!!!! Oh no no no," Tampa Bay Library Consortium captioned a picture of a book badly burnt after borrowers tried microwaving it to kill germs.
The book was loaned out from Temple Terrace Public Library in Florida, where staff assured everyone that books were disinfected safely before being loaned out again.
"Temple Terrace and all Hillsborough County Library Cooperative libraries quarantine all materials for 72 hours after they are returned. Please do NOT attempt to microwave library materials as the RFID tags, located inside, will catch fire. Stay safe out there," they shared on Facebook.
It comes after news stories in the US that claimed people could sanitise library books by placing them in the microwave.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @11:00PM
In time of crisis, people yearn for solutions to make themselves feel better or to signal to others that they are doing their part. In the middle ages, people would beat themselves for god to make the plagues stop. In some areas they still do.
In modern America, with no alternative but to just live through Covid-19, people do dumb stuff like microwave books, think of flushing themselves with bleach, wear homemade masks they never wash or leave their mail sitting outside to have the cooties evaporate.