We develop a lot of different vaccines concurrently — while I know you mean covid vaccines in general, that’s not even one vaccine, it’s multiple competing products from different manufacturers using fundamentally different methods and licensed/regulated differently.

The reason they all happened fast was everyone was willing to burn money, essentially, to parallelise tasks that are normally sequential for the very good reason that if the first fails the rest are pointless.

AIDS is more deadly (36.6 million HIV/AIDS deaths vs 6.3 million COVID deaths), but also less infectious (56-100 million HIV/AIDS cases vs. 524 million COVID).

“Totalitarian”, I'm old enough to remember when that meant literally Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, not the mild inconvenience of being required to prove you’re not a walking biohazard in situations where that can’t just be assumed, for example that time I went to Kenya in 2015 and had to get a vaccine for yellow fever so they would let me pass through the airport.

Does HIV already have treatments/prophylaxis available that can extremely reduce the chance you get HIV or spread it, unlike COVID? Yes.

Are thousands of people in first world countries dying everyday from AIDS? Are tens of thousands of these people contracting HIV everyday? Can you get HIV from standing five feet away from someone infected? No to all the above.

So do you have any actual reasoning, or are you just concern trolling that since it happened for a completely different situation, this would be “forced” on us.