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Except people normally don't dismiss quarantines. They just did it for this particular disease.
As Ron Pavellas commented even the things routinely done for other STDs weren't done with AIDS.
Is that the case? We're happy to quarantine highly-transmittable diseases, but HIV isn't -- it takes significantly more than shaking a hand or coughing to transmit. Indeed, even with easily transmitted conditions like tuberculosis, we go for involuntary quarantine only during emergencies or as a last resort. Most carriers are only required to wear masks and avoid certain types of work.
Indeed, ebola is even less transmittable than HIV, so we shouldn't coercively quarantine it either.