I was not trying to diminish the atrocity that is how the AIDS epidemic was handled, I was only trying to illuminate that people (and the super-majority of our lawmakers) are immature and uninformed when talking about all infectious diseases.

Edit: just look at our President’s response to Covid... it is bumbling and moronic.

For example they make gum disease a lot worse (which then in turn is linked to Alzheimer's for example) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1600-051x....

Note that there is a ton of other HSV-*, for example HSV-6 https://hhv-6foundation.org/what-is-hhv-6 I think there is just not enough research yet on what is caused or made worse by which herpes virus.