Its not staged, people are really dying. Thats the next step in any panic, the reality of deaths distributed across multiple populations of the world. Any really big move, either a panic to downside or the parabolic curve of a market that has doubled or more comes with a bull whip effect. The fastest and most volatile stage to the move is in the tail end, the cumulative cycle of the event results in volume selling that should peak in the turning point.
Possibly we've seen that, as cash sees QE it may help Bitcoin to be a more certain standard of exchange but also possible people still sell out of crypto to buy real goods due to the drastic alteration of the economy for people.
So what I take from that is short term we can see selling exceed buying which means price weakness, its not absolute reason to be negative on Bitcoin but people do need real world goods and even at best BTC is the exchange of virtual security so in that contrast we can see weakness still imo.
Agree that we cannot call this staged in the name of anti-authoritarianism or the deep-state conspiracy theories of Trumpers. People are dying and they need to stay indoors as well as manage social distancing for any chance of a normalized society till a vaccine is discovered. We have never seen anything like this before and not many "experts" alive today have the experience to manage this. People are going to be dependent on their family, community and city for a considerably long time (2-3 months) everywhere that the virus takes root.
When you say that people will continue liquidating BTC for real world goods, i think that is a time still far off. Most people would probably first dig into their existing savings, paychecks or the govt handouts. Everyone should realize that we are all in this together and shouldn't take the survivalist approach of buying off everything they can and have as much cash and gold they can have in case everything turns into zombieland. If we see that level of societal breakdown, well then, wouldn't be much of a point to talk about electronic cash.
i think and hope that this level of mis-governance would not happen. Even then, it is never too late to build a fence and grow some vegetables in your backyard.