The plan is to go with option (a) after all this vaccine stuff is done, and for specifically the reason you mentioned. Pharmaceutical companies are developing extremely expensive new treatments because it's way more profitable than eradicating the virus with already existing out-of-patent molecules. I still recommend people watch the JRE podcast with Brett Weinstein (evolutionary biologist) and Pierre Kory (intensive care doctor) where they discuss how effective Ivermectin has been.
Didn't they try using that in Peru for a while, only to find that any benefits were impossible to gauge and that it failed to reduce infection rate and mortality/serious conditions? Pretty sure the WHO also doesn't have a very high opinion of it, and that Pierre Kory seems to pussy-foot around subjecting treatment to the common standards for pharmaceutical drugs.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-...ersial-ivermectin-paper-pre-publication-68505
Don't believe everything you hear from Tim Pool and Joe Rogan. A de-wormer for horses is pretty close to hydroxychloroquine on the list of miracle cures that don't work, albeit it is at least mostly less dangerous. The whole point of my question was to show that folks should be skeptical of motivations, and this is a prime example. A bitter and disgraced professor (Brett calls himself an exile, for gods sake) and a physician who proclaims his findings are "miraculous" after being dragged in front of the Sentate by Ron Johnson both deserve a bit of the old stink-eye and scrutiny.