Do you mind if I ask what you mean by twiddling their thumbs?

They have a start date in place for next month. Yes COVID is at its peak rn, but how long can they realistically hold off the season until it improves? Until a vaccine is out? Even then, it will not be available to everyone right away, so who knows how long that could be. As someone else mentioned, they just need to move forward even with cases similar to how other leagues are, as long as there are some buffer dates around it in case things get cancelled, which there are.

The organized covid season was a bit easy in some regards as in the number of teams were lower as well as the amount of games. A bubble 2.0 is not realistic with this amount of people.

With that being said, I do hope they can effectively plan the schedule to involve less travel time. I think the NBA has a much better plan in place compared to the NFL, but even then the NFL is having a successful season so far.