They say x, ask for where they heard about x. They say from y news organization, ask the source for y. If they say z, if z is actually an actual document or otherwise, ask them where in z does y claim x is true.
If z is just another news organization, keep going until they provide (or don't provide) an actual document. If they can't procure an actual document, send it yourself. If z is just another video cIip, ask them for the whole video. Provide them the entire video if they can't.
Do not try to antagonize. Just simply ask the questions as if you were trying to understand their point of view, to learn something we might not have heard.
What they really did was leverage our fear response, and advanced the idea over decades that everything has to be 'safe.' More than that, that the government is the one entity that can make everything and everyone safe, and decides what safe is, which is a total fallacy. But people fell for it anyway