I am reminded of columnist
Ellen Goodman of the
Boston Globe who once wrote - with no apparent irony - about the necessity of curing AIDS as soon as possible...because it threatened to stop the sexual revolution of "free love," earlier known as fornication, and that was bad!

People might start getting scared to explore their sexuality freely without responsibility because of AIDS, and we would be returning to repressive traditions, and that was unhealthy!
It also somehow limited the liberation of women politically and socially.

So the government need to find a cure ASAP, so as not to limit the lust of the trousered and beskirted apes of America.