I mentioned it the other day, and find it rather poignantly ironic that the formerly rebellious young gays, who wouldn’t hear of quarantine back in the day, now aged and wiser, wish in hindsight that science had been able to respond to AIDS with the same intensity as COVID:
San Francisco Man Says 80s AIDS Crisis Feels Far Different From Coronavirus Pandemic
“San Francisco Man Says 80s AIDS Crisis Feels Far Different From Coronavirus Pandemic”
I guess one difference is that it was fairly easy to avoid getting AIDS, if one chose that path - whereas not so easy to avoid Coronavirus.