Laid Bare, Barely Evident

Don't look now--stretching the truth, stretch marks: So, even teens, young adults, congregating coeds in close proximity, sans masks (most scantily clad elsewhere as well), celebrating the rites of spring, claiming their ____ amendment rights as college students (at least that's what the report characterized them as, but wondered what and how many credits they were registered for, based on the content of the interviews, containing mostly one/two syllable words)...becomes an opportunity for a reporter to cite "the pandemic has once again laid bare the inequities and racist tendencies in our society and law enforcement...". This article/interview (which I first heard aired on BBC between one of their anchors and a reporter 'on the scene') is now one among many on the theme of "laying bare", regarding what difficulties in our world and more locally in our nation the stresses and strains of the pandemic have revealed. Ranging from how women have been more disproportionately affected (including job losses, more responsibility at home, more direct caregiving due to the higher representation in nursing, etc.), to the disproportionate numbers of minorities affected/infected by COVID-19, to the inequitable distribution of vaccines between and within countries. But SPRING BREAK?!  As the interviewer pressed the reporter on the scene to talk about the dimensions of police enforcement that might reflect a racial bias (in enforcing curfews to stem the 'tide' of partying and super spreading on Miami Beach in particular), the most concrete evidence he could come up with was "...well, I'm told more ____ like to come here and the police know it..." and another brief statement of hearsay (e.g. "...people have told me..."). Both of which seemed to satisfy the interviewer's inclinations...journalistic integrity?! 

Up Close: Well, actually viewed from a distance, through a camera lens, both through still shots and videos, what I saw was a panorama of pigmentation and, regardless of that which was given at birth, a collective attempt to turn whatever shade of 'burn' the mid-day sun would offer, based on the amount of bare skin (perhaps they were all wearing sun screen but my guess is it was about parallel to the number of masks featured). And one interview among a few I endured before wanting to write the institutions of higher learning represented there on the beach, more specifically in the departments of grammar, practical economics, and journalism: "It's not fair...people paid a lot of money to come all the way here [probably parents without knowing], just not to be able to do the activities they wanted to..." And the police I happened to see (admittedly a small sample size) seemed like they were trying a 'hands off' or otherwise distancing approach until some of these students of higher learning started jumping on cars and otherwise trampling on others' property rights...

Laid bare, indeed.