Have to respectfully disagree with you on that point. It's not like only being a little pregnant. Get a scratch, bleed a little, cut a vein, bleed more, cut an artery, bleed profusely.
To people unused to the sight of blood, seeing someone bleed “profusely” is unnerving. In that situation, you often hear comments like “I just couldn’t believe how much blood there was...”
It is like the difference between a “drip, drip, drip” nosebleed and a deep arterial laceration. Most people who have never seen a deep arterial laceration are stunned.
Get a cut on your head and bleed profusely no matter what. That's more likely then a protester hemorrhaging all over the street while people take pictures.
Those protesters WANT us to assume serious or mortal injury, we play tight into their hands when do that, especially with no facts.