The current price was an all time high just a month ago. Anyone who bought in over that month and especially the last 2 weeks will be feeling very sore but I doubt there are that many who did compared to the whole bitcoin community that has been growing steadily for more than 4 years. They were mostly newbies too I think.
We will suffer some bad PR for sometime though regardless of how many actually lost their shirt.
Actually this current price (about 75 usd) was an all time high about 15 days ago. That's even half a month...
Compare this with the housing bubble that popped in my home town around 1994, that bubble popped down to what was an all time high perhaps a decade back in time. If you got 10 years of bubble growth to sucker in the market for experiencing the losses you got quite a different case than when you got a couple of weeks. But we live in different times...