It would show that they’ve got off lightly so far, which they have, whereas they’d look bad if it compared their absolute numbers to Andorra.
I mean, this is the issue - it really depends on what you mean. What's the difference between 1 vs 12? Is one country hit less hard if one region is entirely unaffected but another region is incredibly hard hit?
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If the country's got a much lower death rate than the country you're comparing it to, yes.
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Lol that's just defining your preference by your chosen KPI - totally circular argument
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Due to the exponential spread of an infectious disease in the initial phase, if a country with 10 mil shuts down on the same day as one with 100 mil they'll both have roughly the same number of infections. Which one is harder hit?
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I've already accepted (I think) that it's not useful in the first phase, but the countries in my graph are mostly over the peak.
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Are you also going to claim population density has no impact? Are you really that desperate for Ireland to be doing 'better'pic.twitter.com/sArRSZbHHi
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