RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Black Friday Stock Market SaleI am not a scientist, but I don't see any likelihood of a full lockdown unless, as you say Omicron completely evades the vaccines. We can now say that does not appear to be the case, at least in the labs (my wife works in a related field, so has been involved in extensive meetings this week concerning developments with the variant, but it is a very fast moving situation) and in any event, because of the way that mRNA vaccines work, it is much simpler and quicker to get a new vax out than the first was. A much reduced trial period, plus switching over the production lines is very quick in comparison to building up the initial plants, apparently)
My biggest regret of the last 15 yrs investing was NOT being liquid in spring 2020. If i had sold out EOY 2019, and then bought back in Mar with exactly the same weights I was holding in Dec, I'd be sitting on almost 50% more than my actual (still very acceptable) results obtained by mostly sitting and holding through the crash (only reinvesting dividends).
But I guess we'd all be flying our own penis rockets to the moon if we had perfect 20/20 hindsight.