>>11903212>Why don't they do a "lockdown" for HIV if it works so much?There is a significant difference in how long a person with COVID-19 is infectious and how long a person with HIV is infectious.
We're talking weeks vs. lifetime.
In addition to that HIV isn't all that infectious, you need to have blood contact or sex to transmit it.
And you don't need a lockdown to controll that, just don't have unprotected sex with changing partners and get your partner tested.
You won't get HIV if a person with it cought next to you.
Meanwhile COVID-19 is far more infectious, it spreads via droplets and smeared secretes.
You don't need to have sex with an infected person, a coworker coughing next to you might be enough to infect you.
So a lockdown isn't realy effective against HIV because the people will still be infected after a lockdown and the spread can be reduced to near zero by practicing safer sex.
But it is effective against highly infectious respiratory viruses that infect people only for a few weeks but spread quickly.
HIV could be almost entirely eliminates in civilized countries if mass-tests where a thing.
Maybe tattoo a symbol near the genitals of infected people to make sure their potential partnerd know.
