“Many people around the globe simply refuse to believe that people in positions of leadership, power and influence would do what they have done. They continue to trust the destroyers when simple logic and observation should tell them they have been screwed. i really don’t know what else to say to help when people look at hard evidence and deny it is evidence.”

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I see a very similar thing now, over and over again, while reading the gospels (and Scripture generally), since Covid.

I see a lot of things in Scripture differently now than before Covid, because of the experiences we have all had regarding people we talk to personally, who simply will not believe what is in front of their faces.

Jesus was continually trying to ‘wake people up’, to help them see the truth of Who He is, but the people (many of them) found all sorts of reasons not to believe Him (or in Him).

Even when He did miracles, many could not believe that Jesus was the Son of God.

It wasn’t that the miracles weren’t real, the People could see that someone they knew their whole lives to have been blind from birth could now suddenly see, after Jesus healed him (for one example, John chapter 9).

In the example of the blind man in John chapter 9, the Jews (see John 9:22) had determined that anyone who confessed Christ would be put out of the synagogue (like being deplatformed, ostracized, canceled). So the formerly blind man’s parents, not wanting to be punished, refused to answer how it was that their son, about whom they testified had indeed been blind from birth, could now see.

Instead, they said that their son is of age, so ask him, let him speak for himself! (John 9:23)

In spite of the miracles, something hindered many from believing.

For different people it was a different something.

For some, like the Pharisees, believing Jesus would mean upending their entire religious order, their traditions and the commandments and doctrines of men, from which the Pharisees derived profit and power and influence.

The rich young ruler, to whom Jesus said to sell all that he had and follow Him, could not believe because he would not part with his riches.

When Paul was speaking to Agrippa, Agrippa said “Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” (see Acts 26:28 for the whole verse)

Everyone who would not believe had reasons for not believing Christ, and their reasons were unique to themselves, whether they could self-identify their own reasons or not.

This same problem appears not to be limited to belief in Jesus at all, but manifests in nearly every belief human beings hold (or deny). It’s everywhere, part of the human condition. It’s so common that most of the time we are oblivious to it, as fish are oblivious to water, it’s just the environment they live in.

It seems easier to understand the concept of how our beliefs and disbeliefs are impacted by our personal circumstances when the object of belief or disbelief is in the negative, as in legal or ethical situations where a ‘conflict of interest’ is present.

We are supposed to remove ourselves from situations where we have a conflict of interest, because of the temptation for our judgment to be compromised or biased toward our own beliefs or interests, or against someone we have some cause to dislike.

We may not even be aware of our bias, or we may convince ourselves that we will not allow our bias to affect our judgment, but we know bias exists and the danger it presents in serious matters, which is why judges (as one example) are to recuse themselves from presiding over cases where the judge has a conflict of interest.

So what is it that prevents so many from seeing (believing) what appear to be obviously dangerous warning signs and evidence and statistics (and now peer-reviewed research) about the covid shots and boosters?

It appears to be true, as you observed, that many simply cannot believe that people in positions of leadership, power and influence have deceived them.

But WHY can they not believe it?

The reason why is likely different for every individual, but the resulting disbelief is universal (among those living in denial), so to people like us (who are not in denial about the shots and boosters), it is easy to conclude that the reason so many are in denial is also universal — but that is not necessarily so, and almost certainly isn’t so.

For doctors, the reasons to be in denial may include fear of loss of income for recognizing and standing up for the truth, fear of ridicule from his peers, an unwillingness to believe that the ‘noble profession’ he aspired to be a part of his whole life could be so depraved and corrupt, etc.

No one wants to believe they could be so easily (and comprehensively) deceived, especially if significant numbers of the ‘unwashed masses’ (🙋‍♂️) were not also deceived in the same matter.

If they recommended the vaxx to friends and family, they may be ashamed to admit that they did so blindly, causing harm to people they care about.

Certainly there are many more possible reasons, some common to many people and some more personally oriented, any single one of which may be of sufficient cause, may be of paramount importance to the individual in question, to override his ability to see the obvious truth.

For a long time, I was trying to figure out the one (or at least primary) reason for what some have called the ‘mass-formation psychosis’, because if there was ONE reason (or even only a few reasons), it could be addressed in a general and public way, like debunking a false claim or story. I was looking for a means to ‘wake up’ large numbers of people at once, by addressing whatever blind spot or hindrance was common to most of them.

But it is much more complicated if every individual has a constellation of reasons to be in denial, any one of which (or any combination of several) may be sufficient to that particular individual to cause denial, while a different reason is the key factor in the denial of the next person, and so on.

It creates a situation where ‘the masses’ cannot be ‘cured’ with a single answer or revelation or explanation. They all have to be diagnosed individually, to determine what hinders them, and then address that specific hindrance.

And since that is not possible, the mass delusion / mass denial continues unabated.

Three circumstances occur to me, in which the ‘denial’ might be overcome:

1) People who, for any number of reasons, decide to look for the truth on their own (what might be called seekers, if it was in a religious context). There is not much we can do to assist them, besides provide information and be ready to talk with them if they approach us.

2) People who have no choice but to accept the truth. The best example I can come up with here is when the Allies made German citizens walk through the concentration camps, forcing them to see what the Nazis had done.

3) People who are incentivized to accept the truth. The best example I can come up with here is if class action lawsuits against people and corporations with deep pockets are begun, and everyone who joins the class action lawsuit stands to significantly benefit financially, most people will be eager to both identify an acceptable scapegoat to blame for whatever their own reasons are for not ‘seeing’ before, and of course, most people will be eager for a substantial payday.

Certainly there are others, those are just the first three that occur to me at the moment.