It is easy to see with a little imagination why the GB don't want to acknowledge or admit that contribution have dramatically dropped, because if they did make this acknowledgement contributions would plummet even more. So now they have many who are awake to their fraud that are going to the meetings looking to make contact with others like themselves who are forced to attend because of friends and family, and the shunning policies. As more and more awake and find each others in the same congregation who are awake the more trouble for the WT corporation.
A virtual powder keg just waiting to blow up big time.