Why are people claiming it doesn't exist?

[DK123]

I know there have been a few conspiracy theories but I don't understand why anyone would say that it actually doesn't exist. Not that it's all being exaggerated, but that there's no such thing.

I was shocked to hear my DM was speaking to someone who told her that none of it is real and when she said she knew people who'd had it, including someone who was hospitalised and someone else who's DH died from it, they called her a liar!!

There are plenty of people on MNet who have talked about having had it themselves and I know a few people who have, including a couple who were hospitalised and one who has post viral fatigue still.

I get it that some people might not think the death figures are accurate, the actual cause of death was something else, or that it's not as deadly or prevalent as we are being told - but to say there's no such thing? Why? How? I just don't understand.

Because to some people the randomness of the world can be frightening, so they seek comfort in theories that tell them there's a guiding hand behind it all or total denial. And by "some people" I mean people who are aren't the brightest.

I wonder if it is some sort of protection...in a psychological sense. I'm no expert so don't really know how to explain...but a protection against fear?
If it isn't real I don't need to worry.

Or is it part of the SM warrior culture of everyone knows better than the experts...and believe everything they read.
I advise schools, I know how many posters even on here no so much more than I do about schools😉

I can see how some people might feel so aggrieved about not being able to do what they want to do, that they convince themselves the risk is negligible and if they got the virus "it's only a bad cold anyway" so they dismiss it and carry on as normal. But to say it's fictitious, it's invented to control people (what's the point and what sort of lunatic would bring the economy to its feet on the basis of a fictitious illness?) I don't get that.

@Olmec8

Because to some people the randomness of the world can be frightening, so they seek comfort in theories that tell them there's a guiding hand behind it all or total denial. And by "some people" I mean people who are aren't the brightest.

I think you are right that it's about fear of the randomness of the world, but I don't think this kind of denial is limited to those who lack intelligence.