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by leaflets2 1544 days ago
> I expect most people know not to microwave their phones

I think you're vastly underestimating how little people know. A friendly FYI: seems you're in some kind of a bubble.

Personally I didn't learn about don't-microwave-metal (incl phones), until I was about 20 -- and at that time, I had already been studying physics at university for a year, and knew vastly much more than what most people ever will. I wouldn't say I was a child, at that time.

Be happy if people in general realize that photons and coronavirus aren't the same thing, although they're both small.