[squarefoot]

  1. "There is no such thing as Covid-19"
  2. "Covid-19 is foreign flu that won't affect any of us. Anyone spreading panic will be punished"
  3. "Covid-19 just got here, but it's just a flu. Anyone spreading panic will still be punished"
  4. "Covid-19 is a bad flu, be damned those foreign agents who brought it here. Still a flu, though"
  5. "Things are under control, don't panic and keep up with normal life"
  6. "Everyone stay home, let's close everything. Anyone breaking these rules will be punished"
  7. "People is still gathering; we're forced to turn off civil liberties in the name of security (blame again other countries to direct public anger to the outside)"
  8. Profit.

Looks like they're at point 2.

[dumbstein]

People have been worried sick since the end of January, after infectious disease experts briefed the health ministry. The ruling party prohibited everyone to talk about it prior to March 17th. Because they thought if social distancing would be in effect, no one will gather in their celebration that has been in preparation for months. Yes! you heard that right. They they censored all media/news platforms in the country, so more people would show up in a birthday celebration.

There are only 300 ICU units (in the government hospitals which are permitted to treat infectious diseases) in the country of 165.6 million, roughly 1 for every 600k on a good day. alarming number of people are dying from pneumonia of "unknown cause" everyday, while the government is insisting that there is nothing going on in the country, against 900k phone calls to the helplines, approximately 1100 CORVID19 tests were conducted in total. I am not sure how this will lead to profit when people can't get treatment even with all the money they have.

[gowld]

indentation is not for lists in HN. It's for short code blocks.

If you want linebreaks, just use 2 linebreaks per line:

1. "There is no such thing as Covid-19"

2. "Covid-19 is foreign flu that won't affect any of us. Anyone spreading panic will be punished"

3. "Covid-19 just got here, but it's just a flu. Anyone spreading panic will still be punished"

4. "Covid-19 is a bad flu, be damned those foreign agents who brought it here. Still a flu, though"

5. "Things are under control, don't panic and keep up with normal life"

6. "Everyone stay home, let's close everything. Anyone breaking these rules will be punished"

7. "People is still gathering; we're forced to turn off civil liberties in the name of security (blame again other countries to direct public anger to the outside)"

8. Profit.