The two are almost nothing at all alike. For HIV we have very effective drugs to treat it. I saw an article that claimed you lost more years off your life expectancy with Diabetes than you do HIV now. It's also very hard to catch in day to day life. Covid-19 is very easy to catch, has few treatments but most people don't even know they've had it.
We also don't have over 100 different vaccines in development for HIV.
Usually the past is a reasonable predictor for the future, but not always. We have never as a species focussed this much on any single virus.
Even without long term protection it may be possible to eradicate it through good enough short term protection and modern track and trace processes.
Which is why I carefully worded my post.
What percentage of the world have "very effective drugs to treat" HIV? And are they readily accessible to the population?
I did distinguish between the relative ease with which one can avoid HIV in normal day - to - day life, whereas CV revels in the mundane existence of humans.....
The human body hasn't, in millions of years, developed an effective immune response to coronaviruses. Why do you have confidence that we can do it?
Oh, but we have been close ; next year will mark four decades, hundreds of millions of deaths, and hundreds of billions of dollars, trying to vaccinate against HIV. We're no closer than when we started.
Like I said, a "new normal". Masks, social distancing, tracking.
Forgive my rudeness, but when trying to counter my post, you've either misunderstood it, ignored it, or actually agreed with it. None of which have had the effect which, presumably, you were seeking.