Ok lets say you were a doctor and your patient had HIV and as a result he dies of whatever, really it doesn't matter cause an HIV patient can actually really die from whatever, even a cold. What would be the most suitable cause of death? Would you give a death certificate that would state he caught the cold? I doubt it you would had to write down Human Immunodeficiency virus and the complication.

Mind you that HIV is called as such for the reason already stated. I am really curious. And in the end of the day, does it really matter what are we going to label it? The guy if it was any other guy without HIV wouldn't have die. Same goes with Covid-19 but it is deadlier and airborne its not a STD and to that is a pandemic(meaning a wide spread non-treatable highly contagious various) not an endemic virus like Influenza which people simplify down to Common Flu and at the end of the day there is a lot of herd immunity on it from a large part of the population (Its been around for 102 years). Back in 1918 when Influenza was a pandemic and there were no social distancing measures and medical science was literally 100 years less of effective as it is today spread like the plague and killed like the plague. The density of our modern cities and the interconnection of our modern world does not allow for taking it easy until we get the treatment, I am not hostile sorry I am being sarcastic. I just forgot to add the /s.