This article is from 2 months ago: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/03/pri...-pile-comes-with-a-new-set-of-challenges.html
There have been plenty more like it over the past months and years - the 99% might be living paycheck to paycheck (albeit those paychecks are at least growing), but everyone with real money is sitting on enormous mountains of cash that they have no idea what to do with.
And now the great COVID-oil panic of 2020 has, in under three weeks, taken away the last scraps of risk-free yield that could be had in the Treasury market.
In the short term there might be more selling to come, but once the COVID stuff passes (which will happen in 6-8 weeks if not before - it's already mostly blown over in China and is peaking out in Korea) you'll be left with economic data and earnings figures that have snapped right back to pre-panic levels but with the Fed having implemented ZIRP and probably restarted QE.
Looking out over the next 2-3 years the stage is certainly set for a massive blow-off run in equities, even more powerful than what was setting up in late 2019.
I 100% agree with both of you that we should be looking to go long for exactly the reasons you state. Once earnings come out, things will snap back with the fed pump at our backs.
