Years ago, I met a psychologist who treated many POWs and lectured on the subject of hate. In addition to having advanced university degrees in psychology, she had been a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, because as a seven year-old Jewish girl she posed a threat to the Nazi regime. She told us horrible stories about her family being killed, while she and her sister were kept alive to "entertain the guards."
Initially she "hated," the Nazi guards. One day she realized that there was no difference between the hatred she felt and espoused and the hate felt by the Nazis toward her. That led this young girl being abused and tortured in a Nazi concentration camp to resolve to not hate anyone. She discovered a "Little Nazi," inside her that made hate possible. She said that we all have that Little Nazi inside us, waiting for us to let it out. She resolved to not let that Little Nazi have power in her life and eliminated hatred as a possibility in her reactions to what others did.
We have all had traumas in our lives that led us to let our Little Nazi out. I have learned to keep mine locked away. It is impossible for me to hate you and want you dead for the "crime." of disagreeing with me about politics. It is possible that I value all human beings and do not wish anyone to feel the suffering of the extreme pneumonia and other horrible symptoms that Covid-19 visits upon them. I can disagree with you. I can dislike what you do. I cannot hate you.