i mean not to get ridiculously into the weeds but you're right that it's statistically likely to impact them differently to other subsets of the population but 2 things here I think need to be said:
1) we're still in a pandemic - it spreads quickly and efficiently through the population and these players all have loved ones and family members who may be far more vulnerable as will some of the coaches and support staff who are also put at risk
2) there are still studies being done to determine more accurately what the long-term impacts of covid are but the long-term impact of "long covid" can be pretty severe and they're finding that even healthy people who were initially asymptomatic have had covid-related heart (and other organ) problems - the idea that young healthy people are somehow unaffected by this virus is naive and ignorant it is far worse than the flu for the majority of those who manifest any symptoms and the fallout of post-viral fatigues and syndromes from Covid are going to be a massive burden on healthcare systems for decades
On #1, its sort of a catch-22. If we do have a widespread outbreak in the lockerroom, and we don't play the game, where do the players and coaches go? Answer... home, to spread it to their families.
Now I'm not suggesting flying to Pittsburgh and giving it to the Steelers is an option either, because its not.
My point is the NFL has a contact tracing and quarantine process that, if followed, works. I don't think anybody can dispute that at this point. They do thousands of tests on a weekly basis, and their positive test rate is so ridiculously compared to the general population, who does less traveling and is generally less surrounded by larger groups of people, that in a lot of ways, Pro Sports has become a better model for how to handle a pandemic than society has. Some of that is driven by financial/technology investments that the average person doesn't have access to, but the reality is that many people, myself included, never thought they had a prayer of finishing the first month of the season, let alone getting halfway through it. And they've been killing it for months now.
I said from the beginning that even a handful of players or organizational members getting COVID in a weeks timeframe should not be enough for them to cancel a game. Move it? Possibly, but that's circumstantial. It was easier to move games in week 3, because they could shift by weeks. Moving this game beyond Week 12 means a Week 18 game, and the league knows that.
As for health and safety, while I agree its hypocritical, the health and safety of the leagues players, coaches, staff, etc. is what they're referencing. I would not, and couldn't justify, putting the NFL in charge of the health and safety of families, friends, etc. who interact with them. That's wildly outside of their scope.
If I'm a family member of a Ravens player or coach today, my quarantine from said player or coach has already begun, with or without a positive test. That's the price of playing football professionally for lots of money in 2020. Frankly, if I had at risk people living in the household, said player or coach would have very limited or non existent physical interaction with my family for the entire 4-5 month duration of the season. Seems harsh, but again, if safety truly matters to the general population as well (which is debatable), and you're committed to doing Pro Football as it currently is, I think that's the cost of doing so.