Agree with you on the 1-2, and I was going to write exactly that - that it was false hope.
I disagree with your interpretation of the pill/shares.
They will add shares.
They will not be bought out - even if the pill was a 100% effective miracle cure and added an inch to your cock.
Let me rephrase that. The only reason we didn't go back to normal sooner is because big pharma wanted to make money off vaccines. If their is money to be made off a pill; they'll black ball and put up hurdles to sell a pill that claims the same and is 1/10th as effective, but that they own and can profit from.
Oh, and we have an effective pill already available; Ivermectin.
It's just not profitable to use, so they don't.