The NFL has said that facilities can start to reopen their facilities as long their states allow them to do and it in accordance to their state's regulations. Though right now coaching staff is prohbitied from going to them during this phase one of reopening. Here is some more information about this:

https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-says-teams-...--nfl.html

As far as looking out for people during this time if sports like the NFL try to resume/continue:

I believe there is a very strong/likely chance that the amount of fans that will be allowed to attend games will be limited. There may not be any fans allowed to attend games at all. If either one of these things happens, that could go a ways to help protecting fans.

As far as protecting the players/staff/employees goes:

They need to be careful and take some of the same precautionary steps that those of us who are still out in the workplace/essential workers have to do.It's not ideal that they wear masks all of the time, but they can do things like practice good hygiene/hand washing/keep an appropriate amount of distance when possible. Also limit where they go right now through this offseason all the way through the regular season/post season. They can limit their travel and the amount of people they interact with. They can live a bit more rigidly for now and I do believe a lot of them are willing to do that, if it means they can possibly have some type of NFL season. The NFL can also potentially cut down on the amount of traveling that will be done next season for teams and maybe shorten the season as well.

And players need to take care of themselves. Eating right, especially eating drinking things that can strengthen their immune system, getting enough sleep and a nice amount of exercise/sunshine. I think this could go a ways towards keeping them healthy.

Young healthier people have gotten COVID, but a lot of people that get COVID are high risk people. I just posted an article in the COVID thread about how last week the governor was saying that 66% of the new cases in NY were people who were staying at home, including a lot of unemployed/retired people. He stated he was shocked by these results and they go to show that staying at home isn't a guarantee for not getting this disease, especially if you're in a higher risk group anyway.

People just have to do the best they can and take care of themselves as best as they can. NFL players and athletes are fortunately in a situation where they can do this better than a lot of people, because of the resources available to them and due to a lot of them having wealth. Taking care of their health can definitely help them not fall into some of the higher risk categories that people are in, to get COVID and potentially other diseases in the future.

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