[anonfounder152]

While what you said is true, puts are offered by market makers who have the expected price action priced in and so they have huge premiums right now to the point where it's just a -EV gamble. While shorting will still be able to sell to irrational investors.

Puts also have a risk that if there is a trading halt, and your puts expire within them, they will expire worthless if you cannot short the stock to exercise them.