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Trump’s question reflects a widespread public amnesia that has clouded over our collective memory of COVID.

“It put a big, dark cloud over everything for me,” said Greg, now 58.

Polls had identified inflation as voters’ biggest concern, but abortion ended up looming like a dark cloud over Republican candidates.

“It’s like a cloud over my head, it’s always just this waiting and waiting and waiting,” she says.

And by the time he left Hungary on Friday at the end of a six-day European tour, the clouds over his country’s relations with the West looked much less dark, at least from China’s perspective.