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I'm not sure of the 'off the charts' point regarding Sweden and USA in terms of Corona virus. These countries currently rank #7 and #9 respectively on world wid

I'm not sure of the 'off the charts' point regarding Sweden and USA in terms of Corona virus. These countries currently rank #7 and #9 respectively on world wide deaths per one million population and significantly below other countries: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat... Unless he is talking about raw numbers, but then that's not a very honest argument.

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happytoexplain 6y ago
I see this point of view a lot, and it's a little scary. Per-capita numbers are obviously highly valuable, but why is the raw number of people dead somehow meaningless?
- kyleee 6y ago
  Nobody said the raw number of deaths is meaningless.
- rich_sasha 6y ago
  Not meaningless, but otherwise you are mostly comparing the _sizes_ of countries. Is being a bigger country (with more deaths) more dramatic than being a smaller one?