The context has been public gatherings. If you are around people outside your household (or even higher risk people in your household) and there is any question as to anyone's immunity status, you should probably be wearing a mask during a pandemic like this.
Personally, I've worn a mask for maybe a grand total of five minutes since this started, because I don't need to be around anyone except for my wife (who, until she started teaching again, didn't need to be around anyone except for me), and have only visited other isolated people like my mother (who is retired and rarely goes out). It's not practical for me to avoid exposure if my wife gets exposed, so I'm self-quarantining again and won't be able to visit my mother until December.
Since I live in the suburbs and have my own property, I don't need to be in close contact with my neighbors. I get my necessities delivered, contactlessly. I jog three times a week from 2 to 4am; in the last six months I've seen a total of two other people, who were perfectly content to stay away from me. I usually try to have a mask on hand, in case I need to approach someone, but it rarely comes up.
COVID-19 would need to be killing several times as many people for the mortality rate of majority demographics to match those of minorities during the best of times. What you see during the worst of pandemics or wars is what the more disenfranchised see every day for their entire lives because of pervasive systemic inequalities. Then, when things like pandemics hit, those same disenfranchised people are more exposed and less protected, for the same reasons.
So yeah, civil rights are a matter of survival.
then maybe look in the mirror?
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