I'm going out on a limb here and guess you're in the US because that's the only place I've seen hyperfixating on China during COVID discussions. I don't think

I'm going out on a limb here and guess you're in the US because that's the only place I've seen hyperfixating on China during COVID discussions. I don't think "China will forever be remembered as the wannabe superpower that was so scared of the truth that it knowingly fucked over the rest of the world for more than 2 years" because that's not even what anyone remembers them as today, outside the US. And even in the US I don't think that's going to matter or create any semblence of a legacy in any way that matters. China was very quick to rebound from the economic downturn and as far as I can tell came out ahead of everyone else. Not to mention that every single other country fucked up their pandemic response so badly that getting angry at China requires several layers of indirection (though some US media has been better at making this detour).