The reason they focus on "cases" is because nearly all cases are just positive results on a faulty PCR test so they can inflate the numbers even further. Hospitalized? No symptoms? 5 pre-existing conditions? Down with a mild cold? Who cares, it's all "cases".
There's also an element of victim-shaming in a lot of these stories. Often, the implication is that the infected didn't believe strongly enough in the god of Science™. If the victim insists that they follow all the rites and made the proper sacrifices, then the blame shift to a nebulous "other" who somehow escaped certain COVID-death but lived to spread the lethal disease to everyone else. It's like a bad Sci-Fi story: "What if all the anti-Vaxxers/free-breathers were Typhoid Mary's?"
The reason they focus on "cases" is because nearly all cases are just positive results on a faulty PCR test so they can inflate the numbers even further. Hospitalized? No symptoms? 5 pre-existing conditions? Down with a mild cold? Who cares, it's all "cases".
There's also an element of victim-shaming in a lot of these stories. Often, the implication is that the infected didn't believe strongly enough in the god of Science™. If the victim insists that they follow all the rites and made the proper sacrifices, then the blame shift to a nebulous "other" who somehow escaped certain COVID-death but lived to spread the lethal disease to everyone else. It's like a bad Sci-Fi story: "What if all the anti-Vaxxers/free-breathers were Typhoid Mary's?"