I think the best point of this article that you point out multiple times, is to ignore the media pundits pushing doomsday stories.

It’s important to remember that everyone has an agenda, it wasn’t too long ago during the initial stock market crash of covid where people were saying how ugly it was going to get and you should sell all your assets now to protect yourself. Meanwhile, those same people were taking huge short positions against the market and raking in enormous profits.