It is not about politics, I still support opening up everything, you can always be safe when you work, travel, protest or loot, it just takes planing ahead.
The meme is not related to covid but life choices, people that fear the police choose that path. The same is true for racism, if you look for it you will find it but doing so requires you to forget the examples of people coming to together after disasters, to feed the hungry and all the other tens of millions of times that race played no part.
Confirmation bias is how people learn to hate the President, the police, other cultures, other races, other political parties, you get the idea. We are all guilty of it at some point but we do not always care and that is an even bigger issue.