I am definitely too young to remember this but last time I checked history ICUs were not overflowing with AIDS patients and AIDS cases raising exponentially within days/months displacing everything else. Furthermore, even today there is no easy medical fix for HIV/AIDS and certainly there is no therapeutic vaccine. Quite on the contrary there are safe and effective vaccines against COVID which are free and broadly available. So I think the comparison you invoke is not really appropriate. I don't think economics is giving evil reasoning. Ultimately someone is going to have to pay for all this - money ain't growing on the trees - and the question is who and why. I'd actually argue that it's appropriate to reward those that are socially considerate and responsible and "penalize" those that are not, and I use "penalize" in quotations b/c it's really more about requiring the "fair share" from these people. It's simply about externalities which are growing again and becoming untenable due to selfish behaviors of parts of society. I actually think behavior like that is evil due to high transmissibility of the disease.