You're very right. Truth is everybody will loose something momentarily, but the point is how to take advantage. As you say to use this drop scenarios to buy is a great option, but in order to do that is important to USD in your exchange ready to buy, and program some orders for very low values: 1500 BTC - 100 ETH just in case apocalypse comes
RE: Clearly people are buying BTC during the final hours, but what about the first hours of tomorrow