Difficulty will drop in two weeks. I'm not sure anyone want to mine for two weeks without profit.
There are still some miners whose electric cost is 0, because they are stealing energy powers. I think if BTC price is not dropping sharply, they will mine.
Yes, there will be before whales dump their core coin. They will have to rent hashrate to make their deposite transations to exchanges be comfirmed, or they will suffer the lost.