If HIV was more easily transmissible — like with COVID — the human race would have been mostly (99%) wiped out by the 1970s or 80s at the latest. Before modern

If HIV was more easily transmissible — like with COVID — the human race would have been mostly (99%) wiped out by the 1970s or 80s at the latest. Before modern treatments, HIV was a death sentence and had a very long incubation time.