Do these authors complain that the million plus yearly worldwide Tuberculosis deaths are not reported daily? Or the hundreds of thousands of flu deaths? Or cancer deaths? I could go on. The fact that they are not year in year out shows (according to their logic) (i) that death has been normalized for years and (ii) "the workers must die".
And then, the complete opposite is happening now -- the daily deaths of this disease are being reported. So they seem to have a few screws loose.
"But even the spread of the virus into the ruling class, and into the White House itself, has no effect on the response."
Eh, perhaps because the disease didn't actually affect anyone? Just like so many "cases".