A bi-partisan stimulus plan

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. While all the experts argue their hearts out on the root causes of the global downturn and all the politicians are trying to figure out how to become expert darners, it occured to me (and two other weirdos) that the solution might have actually been easy and cheap. Everybody that I have been catching up this new year has either been ill in the run-up to Christmas or around that time or shortly after that. And, not just for a day or two but for 2-3 weeks at a stretch. So, this would have prevented the majority of us from going to the high streets and even when the retailers tried to entice us with deep discounts, we were busy loading up our bodies with paracetamol, lemsip, day & night nurse, etc. So, if the government had vaccinated the whole bloody country, and then had planes hovering over the borders spraying Dettol disinfectants before Christmas, none of this - retailers shutting down, global downturn, etc - would have ever happened. So, the required solution was actually a "medical stimulus plan" to this financial problem, and would have definitely cost much less than 850 billion dollars for the US tax payer. The best part, it would have been bi-partisan! The saying goes "When the US catches a cold, the whole world sneezes". Just, this time around its a nasty cold and the time has already passed for my medical stimulus plan. Alas, very sad indeed.