For the last week, I’ve heard about pretty much only one thing: Hillary Clinton has pneumonia. And because she has pneumonia, she shouldn’t be running for president.
I know, it doesn’t make any sense to me, either.
I’m not a doctor, but I watch a lot of medical dramas, which essentially makes me a doctor (It doesn’t. I promise. You don’t want me operating on you because I will pass out because I don’t like blood and needles). Though I don’t have the medical degree to diagnosis pneumonia, I can tell you that it sucks to have it. Especially in the summer months.
When I was going into my sophomore year of high school (six years ago, if you want to know), I got back from a family vacation in Florida and got pneumonia. It was super sucky because it was the middle of July and it was hot, hot, hot. I was miserable and I was in bed for the week I had it.
Clinton had the opposite experience. She’s in the middle of campaigning to potentially run the country. And Sunday, when she got overheated at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, the high temperature for the day was 83 degrees, according to AccuWeather.
On top of the heat and the pneumonia, Clinton was wearing a suit and was probably wearing a bulletproof vest underneath her suit. According to a Quora thread, bulletproof vests usually weigh about five or six pounds, but can be heavier.
That’s bound to overheat anyone on a general day. When you have pneumonia? It’s going to overheat you even more.
As for claims Clinton shouldn’t be running for president because of the video of her stumbling from being overheated and dehydrated? Those are stupid reasons as to why someone shouldn’t run for president. Again, going back to when I had pneumonia, I went miniature golfing with my mom and my brother when I was sick (before I knew I had pneumonia) and was absolutely miserable. The sun was beating down on me and I felt incredibly dizzy. I probably would have passed out too.
Now, if Clinton was diagnosed with the plague, then maybe we should be discussing getting a replacement nominee. But pneumonia isn’t the plague. You get diagnosed with pneumonia, you take antibiotics and you get better.
Clinton’s personal doctor even said in a statement she’s “fit to serve.” Clinton’s doctor also said that concussion she had in 2012 isn’t going to affect her ability to potentially be the president and that her hypothyroidism shouldn’t cause too much of a problem if she’s elected.
For alarmists about the hypothyroidism, it’s a common condition that means someone’s thyroid doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormones in the bloodstream. The American Thyroid Association reports that 12 percent of the U.S. population will develop a thyroid condition in their lifetime, about 20 million Americans have a thyroid problem and one in eight women will have a thyroid problem in her life.
If a doctor says it, then I’m good with that.
So, to sum it up, pneumonia shouldn’t stop someone from running for president. Now, let’s find something else to focus on for the upcoming election.
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