>>Everyone else couldn’t have cared less.
This isn’t accurate. It wasn’t until the late ‘80s when the heterosexual/non-drug user link to AIDS was essentially refuted. During most of the ‘80s the media and the gay crowd were doing everything they could to get the idea across that everyday Americans were at high risk.
That may be true but that effort,IIRC,failed because the methods of transmission had been clearly established by the early-mid 80's.