Yeah, from the sounds of the discussions, it was the players union that wanted the stricter Covid-19 rules than the NFL.
So while it's NFL policy, I'm thinking it's policy based on the NFLPA (Player's Union) push and agreement with the NFL, and that it might be based on uncertain or unknown factors.
Such as how often they were going to test... as the NFL agreed to test 6 days a week for __ amount of weeks, then it sounded as if they were possibly planning to reduce that number to once week. But in reality, they actually up it to 7 times a week.
So while in the current realities of testing 7 days of week, these extra protocols are deemed unnecessary and over the top....
In what was expected when the policy was implemented, of testing less often to save money on costs on testing, these extra protocols MIGHT of been helpful.
Yes there is the double standard either way, but they didn't feel like they could take the touching and interacting out of football and still sell it as football. So they took as much touching and interacting out where they could elsewhere.
At least that's my theory... based on what what was expected at the time, I could understand the extra stuff coming into play, but since the opposite of what was expected happened, they MIGHT be unneeded.
Another uncertain or unknown factor, was how much and at what ease would the virus spread amount teams and how seriously would teams, employees and players take the virus.