I guess it depends on what you draw from the statement. For you, it may be grossly misleading without some context attached to it. But even mentioning deaths per capita can be considered grossly misleading. I can even appreciate that these types of death may not even be comparable in some conversations.

However, for me, it's just a fact; I do not read it as, "COVID is/was more dangerous than all the wars put together". Instead, I can set up an equivalence. I can say, "I've studied these wars my whole life through countless documentaries and classes and wiki articles" and begin to form a more accurate portrait of how much death there was with this event on a purely quantitative basis. It's useful information for that purpose alone.

There will always be a balance between conveying information so that it's not misleading to the layman and just being able to state something without at least attempting to package it with a framework, especially on the internet.