Holding is only for those you can afford to take risks for the rainy day and as long as the earth remains challanges are part of human experience and as such so much would tempt one sell some coin. But there is always a short break for every human figure represented on earth where you have little or no need for money but it keeps coming in and that's the best time to invest other than save.
Saving has been the traditional way of planning for the future where people bank their funds in commercial banking sector waiting for when the need to take back from the bank arises even when we had centralized stocks where people could invest in many still thought it was wiser to deal directly with banks other than investing.
Currently the ecosystem has changed and the pandemic outbreak launched in a new era where people's need became even more insatiable and spiked the cost of livelihood. To tackle the present state of economic challenge investing is more.preferred to saving even though it's more risky but a diversied portfolio is more secured than mere saving