Yes...since Day 1 of the Pandemic. Also, on the flip side...many adapted very well in this Pandemic to be able to exploit it economically & financially. wrbtrader
The only thing worse than trying to curve fit a trading strategy to a historical chart is trying to curve fit a life strategy to historical prophecies.
Reminds me of 2009-2013 when so many traders pursued suboptimal strategies based on their belief the economy and markets would tank for years. Too many are chasing the past because they feel the market owes them something. A good strategy recognizes the present and reassesses what might work moving forward. Not always easy to admit mistakes and move on but it's an important aspect of longer term success. There will always be new opportunities to apply capital sometimes very obvious ones ( eg Cdn energy in March-October 2020 ).
"... Academic sources reject the notion that Nostradamus had any genuine supernatural prophetic abilities and maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are the result of (sometimes deliberate) misinterpretations or mistranslations.[8] These academics also argue that Nostradamus's predictions are characteristically vague, meaning they could be applied to virtually anything, and are useless for determining whether their author had any real prophetic powers. ..." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus
I'm not a believer,although I do enjoy it when lightning strikes and they get one right(steel birds into the 2 brothers etc). Rather than cannibalism,could "man eat his friend" relate to the consuming of dog meat? i.e lower grade and non traditional meats as the traditional become out of reach for many? Could effectively be a prophecy that things will be tough for long enough that culture and custom may shift?
One significant thing we should look out for is when negative NFP data starts moving markets down (aka the normal reaction) rather than up because people are just thinking about the Fed interest rates. I don't think it's too far off.