You don't hear much about the china plague anymore.
They wore it out, took it past the DILLIGAF phase line into most Americans' 'screw it' territory, and flirt with open rebellion if they push that any farther.
Look at the reaction in Ottawa and Trudeau going full Totalitarian in panic mode. He showed some New World Order cards (financial seizures) the main management didn't want seen, so now they've backed up a step and are going after guns, not just there, but here, too, under the guise of
for the children (old battle cry of the left) because
they got scared people were going to gear up and throw them out.
The freedom convoy was on its way to being a movement that might show them what an insurrection looks like, so they backed off to defeat it the only way they could--by making it irrelevant, dumping/hiding it from the news cycle and finding something shiny to point to.
Cue Russia and invade, we need a big distraction because it is border surge season (Where are those danged murder hornets, anyway?).