HIV/AIDS Comparisons
Comments discuss HIV/AIDS treatability, history, stigma, and progression, often drawing parallels or contrasts to COVID-19 in terms of severity, transmission, and societal response.
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Weird how people were saying the same thing about HIV
Was not HIV said to be like that?
HIV/AIDS does not just affect gay people, stop spreading this myth.
It's like how there's a cure for HIV that you really don't want.
Likelihood of this happening in the internet era, for something with an order of magnitude more rapid progression than HIV/AIDS?
Probably because HIV is getting more treatable
The comment you're replying to is clearly sarcastic. Infecting 2400 people with HIV is generally not considered good care.
The treatments for HIV are incredibly effective, if you can afford them. It can even reduce your viral load to undetectable. There is a campaign that Undetectable=Untransmittable, to reduce the stigma associated with it. I have to admit I don't know if I'm comfortable with having unprotected sex with someone who had the virus, but the data says it's safe.There is also pre exposure prophylaxis, which isn't a vaccine but does dramatically reduce the risk.Between the two,
There is progress on HIV. I don't think that it's related to this though: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/hiv-cure-cell-test...
There's extensive discussion about this in the HIV Wikipedia article. Posting such a question here seems like an odd way to learn about this topic if you're truly interested.