why so many people not expect the stock market to go back up again when it crashed in March of 2020?

Question

why did so many people sell their stocks so low ? why they didn't stay in and wait it out? how they felt after it started to come back up again and even higher than before? did hardly ANYONE expect it to do so? and so quickly? why?

Answer 1

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Because everyone expected covid 19 to affect the world's economies for a long time.

Answer 2

Nobody yet has accurately predicted the stock market 100%.