i remember living in china, and the pandemic being pretty much over by early summer 2020. some small flare ups and strict pandemic control after that though. things were good for a couple of years.

then the rest of the world decided that it’s unfair that china showed that controlling the pandemic was possible, and that every other country were letting their citizens die by the tens of thousands for no reason.

finally restrictions were being lifted, a huge spike in infections obviously resulted, and immediately chinese people travelling overseas were being treated like garbage at every international airport, and in western news there were racist stories about how much these people spread disease, like back to january 2020. suddenly for a short time those western countries cared about the spread of covid again, because they could be racist about it again