If you're white (and I suspect you probably are), then this virus might well be one of the biggest existential threats you will have had to face in your lifetime.
If you're black (and I'm not, so this is more about trying to build my awareness than experience), and particularly in America, you face a statistically far greater threat than Covid-19 every time you step outside your front door - and sometimes you won't even have to do that. Black people are far more likely to be killed, injured, put in fear of death or injury, etc., than white people - in the US, here, and all over the place. You will be less likely to find work to feed yourself and your family than your white counterparts, educational opportunities will be more limited, and you'll be generally treated with more suspicion than if you were white. That's what structural racism does.
So maybe protesting all those deaths and discrimination might not seen like a priority to you, because you're not at nearly the same risk as a black person. But it's very likely that, for a lot of black people, that shit is a FAR bigger, endemic, and clear and present threat to their well-being than a virus. Maybe they're wrong, but it isn't hard to see why they might think it is.
