AIDs was not allowed to run rampant. My wife and I were in SF in 83-84 when the “gays” ran riot over the town because CDC had come in and closed the bathhouses. By riot, I mean burning buildings and cars, threatening to kill people, etc. Reagan was so flummoxed by the insanity that he agreed to remove the restrictions, not understanding what was really going on in the streets.
The gays killed themselves because they could not control their lusts to allow the disease to die.
In 1900 there was a plague outbreak in Chinatown. A local doctor detected that outbreak and reported it to the city, along with rat catching and general hygiene and public health measures.
The fine people in city hall, like those in the 70's simply refused to believe there was a plague outbreak in their fair city.
They blocked any effort to stop the spread of the disease. Then it spread to the local ground squirrel population and escaped the slums to everywhere in the west.
San Fransisco learned nothing from the bitter lessons of the past when a gay plague broke out barely 7 decades later.
Thanks guys.