When you see people on disability Twitter or whatever claiming that "Biden's COVID policy" was/is destructive, irresponsible, etc., particularly if they're acting like he's equivalent to or worse than Trump... ask them what the horrible policy is. Ask them what the specific policy is they take issue with and what they think he should have done instead.
I say this because IME, the vast majority of the time, these are "zero COVID" people who think that we should have locked down until COVID was completely eradicated and until every single person (including people with severe autoimmune disorders who were already not safe going outside because of other pathogens) was able to safely go to a crowded night club. Aka a thing that no government on the planet Earth did, that no candidate anywhere of any party is proposing, and that every medical organization has recommended strongly against. Because:
It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how infectious disease works. Starting with the fact that we have eradicated a disease like this exactly once in human history. We're not even at Zero Bubonic Plague, let alone Zero COVID; does that mean we should act like the Black Death is still ongoing? These people love to act like the HIV-AIDS crisis is "over" (and appropriate slogans from it) because we have good effective drugs for keeping HIV-positive people healthy for decades and containing its spread, but there are still over a million new cases every year.
Lockdowns were psychologically damaging for most of the population, to the point that some people have suggested that the effects of the 2020 lockdown could be classified as a mental health pandemic, and likely had all sorts of consequences we're just beginning to see, like spreading online extremism from so many people being shut in with nothing to do but get lost in the wilds of the Internet. The idea that the vast majority of the population that is, when vaccinated and boosted, perfectly healthy going out in the world and resuming normal social activities, needs to still lock down forever because it's dangerous to a tiny minority... rather than our society be better at supporting that minority in being able to stay home.... makes no sense, especially given the high health cost of lockdowns. (As I've said before, it's funny how many of these people are the same people posting "mental health is as important as physical heatlh!" memes yet they think the fact that staying indoors for a year drove us all collectively a little insane should just be shrugged off.)
That's not even to go into the other costs of lockdowns: like how much lost education there was because of the inadequacy of Zoom school in most places, a thing every educator I know from elementary school through college has noticed, that the usual skills students would learn from the years they were in online school are significantly weakened or completely missing.
Should we do more to accommodate people who really cannot go out? Of course. Is it frustrating how every workplace showed that they are perfectly capable of doing what are pretty standard disability accommodations, and then tried to roll that back the second the majority of people were able to go back to in-person work and school and social lives? Yeah (though a lot of that is here to stay; way more jobs at least offer work-from-home, way more schools offer online learning, etc.) But the idea that everyone should still be locking down 4 years into the pandemic is just not supported by anything or anyone except for a very loud and very insular group of weirdos online - who also, IME, almost never have the particular disabilities or illnesses that actually result in you having a greater risk from COVID. They're nearly always other kinds of disabled people appropriating that. Though hopefully, you can see that "everyone needs to lockdown forever until zero covid" is a pretty clearly bonkers take coming from anyone.
I see a lot of people falling for this "but Biden's disastrous COVID policy" these people are putting out there who obviously don't agree with "zero COVID" and this is why you need to ask people what they mean when they say these things. Almost no one agrees with these cultish weirdos and that's for a reason! So don't take their word for it! Ask them what they mean! Even if you overall dislike Joe Biden, hopefully you can see why letting them demonize a politician over what is an extreme position that is not feasible and is not being proposed by anyone anywhere on the political spectrum in any country, is so very damaging. This is like raging against "Biden's animal rights policies" and it turns out the person is mad that Biden doesn't think they should be able to keep a great white shark as a pet.
Ask people what they mean. A lot of people are deliberately leaving out info because they know it's extreme and that you wouldn't agree with it if they elaborated. So don't do it until they elaborate!
