The problem is that your search for more and more “hard evidence” becomes unreasonable and an insult to people who have been devastated. These questions have simple, benign answers that have been given over and over again.
I’m beginning to think it’s true that some don’t want their questions answered.
Your simple answer doesn’t mean it is true.
456 children and hundreds of parents cannot be evacuated and huddled together with the media present in a small location without pictures being taken
Where are they?
One plausible answer is they are being shopped around for money.
But by now some would have surely been sold.
Another answer is that someone clamped down on them for some reason.
I am sure there are other reasons.
They want to believe in the conspiracy because the conspiracy fits their world view better. Any answers you provide just cause them to make increasingly bizarre assertions in order to explain away or incorporate said answers into the conspiracy.
We conservatives are going to have to deal with a lot of this stuff on our side for a few years - and we need to be ready to call it out and make sure kook conspiracies are not associated with conservatism by the general public. Our side has suffered some bad election cycles of late and public opinion seems to be shifting left on many issues. A lot of otherwise well meaning folks will look to conspiracies to make sense of it. It's just easier than accepting that we aren't winning at the moment.