Vegas visitors are greeted with $1 water signs as they walk past a window with water bottles at the major shopping mall. Children with bare feet complain about burns turning into toe rashes. Girls walk around with swimsuit bikinis inside the fashion boutiques. The heat is so raw that the sun has actually started to scare away what few visitors have come to enjoy Vegas. A tourist with white skin was taking photographs outside of the casino. He was about 30 yards away when I notice him. My car was stopped in traffic. As we waited for the light to turn green, I noticed his red skin turning to shades of purple. The crimson burn was literally transforming his already burned red flesh to a skin shade of purple. The sight was sick to watch. He didn’t realize that in a few hours as the sun set for the evening, his brain would communicate the pain to his body, and sun poisoning would set in. Chills, vomiting, delirium. The intensity of the sun rays would threaten his health. The allergic reaction from over exposure is normal, because tourists are distracted by the famous sights along Las Vegas Boulevard. Parents are more concerning with photographs than children with soft skin. The children don’t wear hats. Few children have sun glasses. The parents are happy to be testing their new cameras. They want to show friends the homemade movies they made while visiting Las Vegas. The sun literally destroys the cameras, especially if the computer parts are left inside a heated automobile. The camera doesn’t blister, but tourists come back to their laptop computers, and the operating systems won’t even start up on demand. Microprocessors, memory chips, CPUs, the computer parts within lap top computers are made up of chemicals.
Reporting from Las Vegas, Nevada
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