It’s fair to say that not everyone is taking the COVID-19 virus all that seriously. The death toll has cleared 118,000 as of the time of publication for this article, with 2.15 million people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus nationwide, but states are in various stages of opening up or closing down restaurants, bars, public pools, and athletics.
Regardless of what’s going on in the country more broadly and the risks people seem all too comfortable taking, the NFL and NFLPA can hardly afford to laugh it off. If players are widely afflicted with the virus, the season is probably doomed.