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Seeing this in various forms, but irrespective this IS a pandemic and it IS a crisis. To focus on per capita data is missing the point and for where we are today is wholly irrelevant.
If comparing prevalence of cancer between countries, you’d adjust per capita, because it’s not a transmissible disease: it comes from lifestyle, genes, pure chance, so if per-capita rate is higher in A than B, then that’s because of something specific to that country. Covid spreads from person to person; it’s not like cancer. It’s exogenous.
Generally, these digressions are not informative regarding HOW a country’s dealing with Covid-19. So all we should be focussed on is the % increase as a measure of expansion (and containment). The rest can come later.
What’s clear is countries that adopted strict social distancing and early bird policies are faring substantially better than those who delayed. See the Australian stats in BobShaw’s post above.