This is a Weird Darkness Bonus Bite.

Many of us are going to extreme lengths to guarantee we don't get COVID-19.

We're washing our hands way more than necessary, cleaning all of our groceries with disinfecting

wipes before bringing them into the house, wearing a face mask to take out the garbage and

tearing off our clothes, throwing them in a big pile in the yard and burning them every

time we come home from literally anywhere.

One thing we're not doing is microwaving library books.

Well, some of us are.

You might be wondering why exactly somebody would microwave a library book.

But if you take away any concept of science and merely jump to the strange conclusions

and an attempt to stay virus-free, it seems like it might work.

Those filthy library books could have anything on them, not just coronavirus.

We've been told that if you heat food up past 165 degrees, it's safe from the virus.

So why not books, right?

The Kent District Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan once patrons to know that while microwaving

library books doesn't guarantee their free of viruses, it does completely ruin the books.

I don't know if it was something that they saw on the news, that they thought maybe

the heat would kill COVID-19.

Elizabeth Bonerol-Coslawitz, the regional manager of Kent District Library, said in an interview

with the Detroit Free Press, that library received a handful of microwaved books recently.

How did they know these books got the TV dinner treatment?

Well each book has a radio frequency tag that gets made of metal.

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