I agree with you, but I think that was MagnumOpus's point of bringing up patients per million.
A country of 1,000 people and a 10% infection rate has more patients that need masks, but it could be argued that a country of 5 people and a 100% infection rate needs the masks more, lest their entire country suddenly collapse and cease to exist.
Seems like arguing that France has more patients per million implies they have a bigger threat to the country itself (traditions, systems, jobs, etc) or that the spread is less contained (and therefore more in need of PPE), compared to another country with a lower patients-per-million that is theoretically not hit "as hard", but still may have more individual patients at risk.
A country of 1,000 people and a 10% infection rate has more patients that need masks, but it could be argued that a country of 5 people and a 100% infection rate needs the masks more, lest their entire country suddenly collapse and cease to exist.
Seems like arguing that France has more patients per million implies they have a bigger threat to the country itself (traditions, systems, jobs, etc) or that the spread is less contained (and therefore more in need of PPE), compared to another country with a lower patients-per-million that is theoretically not hit "as hard", but still may have more individual patients at risk.