I am convinced that both “normalcy bias” (your friends) and paranoia (me :-) ) are at least partially genetic.
That is why (imho) logical discussion on these points cannot change a lot of minds.
(“normalcy bias”)
They are ALL infected with that.
AND fully-jabbed and boosted.
Because they’re basically decent people and God would never allow anything bad to happen to them.
Book of Job shows that the Enemy sometimes inflicts severe testing but only with God’s permission.
However what with their money and assets, these passages come to mind:
Luke 17:27-30
English Standard Version
27 (A)They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of (B)Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
29 (C)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—
30 so will it be (D)on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2017%3A27-30&version=ESV&interface=amp
When I tell them the world is changing rapidly and it is accelerating, I get shrugs, rolled eyes 🙄, and basically, I’m ghosted.
Cares of this life..... Biblical - lots of good stuff in this one.
Mark 4:19
King James Version
19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+4%3A19&version=KJV