Can& #39;t believe I& #39;m defending @dpfdpf. Not about Australia& #39;s "success" as you need to be careful to compare NZ to like regions rather than Australia as a whole and also recognise that state governments were a lot more competent with their responses than the national govt, but...
the per capita comparison here is fine.

Firstly, the amount of tests you can generate as a country is obviously related to the amount of resource, including people, you have.
Second, not making the comparison per capita would make NZ look comparatively worse (because, you know, we& #39;re smaller than Australia), not comparatively better.
Third, everyone& #39;s God, Ashley Bloomfield always talks about tests per capita.
Fourth, per capita should be used generally absent a better measure as an indicator of how close we are to pressuring the system. https://twitter.com/Economissive/status/1249492517029990400">https://twitter.com/Economiss...
Of course, if it& #39;s not deaths you& #39;re worried about, and instead some abstract growth rate from a hypothetical single individual, by all means stick to your log graphs!
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