1. The flu kills 60k people a year (in US). This virus has killed 170k people in about 6 months. Most doctors will tell you we don't take enough precautions against the flu, not that we take too many against COVID.
2. The right amount to play football is about transmission rates. And the right amount is about where Europe is right now. European soccer continued play only after transmission rates went down, and has continued because they stayed down. UK is doing the worst in Europe and they are averaging about 1k new cases a day (over the last week). Florida, 1/3 the population of the UK, just announced 4,555 new cases today, which is actually an improvement over their peak of 15,300 cases in one day on July 12. Illinois, less than 1/5 the population of the UK, is averaging 1,900 new cases a day over the last week. We just aren't there, and it's going to take work to get there, but it is possible. It's just going to take a level of sacrifice and patience we haven't had the willingness for yet.