> It’s politics when you are deciding what groups of people should do.

Yes, which is what the protests are about: whether large groups of people should be allowed to do certain things.

Nobody is protesting against your right to stay inside if you want to.

> I’m just not going to be rushing into them after what we’ve witnessed in this city the last ten weeks.

That’s fine. But you claimed you couldn’t imagine anyone behaving differently, when (clearly IMO) quite a lot of people will.