Originally Posted by SOPS
if I get diagnosed with cancer.. I’m not going to give it to anyone else.
True. But I don't recall lockdowns and stuffing up economies over HIV; which of course you can pass to someone else!
Here's a tidbit from the WHO:
The drop in HIV-related mortality is especially evident in the regions with the greatest burden of HIV infection, including the WHO African Region, home to over 61% of people dying from HIV-related causes in 2018. An estimated 470 000 [340 000−630 000] people died in the African Region from HIV-related causes in 2018, which indicates that mortality has dropped by almost 40% since 2010.
In other words, In Africa alone nearly half a million people died from HIV in one year, and that's a reduction. We're getting in a fluff now about Covid19 that by my estimate (depending on my mathematics) has only infected 0.0022% of the entire world population and killed 0.000083% of it?