What We Should Be Talking About Instead of Hillary Clinton’s Pneumonia

As you probably know by now, Hillary Clinton made the news earlier this week for leaving a September 11 memorial event early and appearing to stumble as she got into a car. It turns out she has walking pneumonia, and as usual, everyone is freaking out. I can’t tell if they think catching an illness should somehow disqualify someone from becoming president, or if they think anyone who’s running for president must be the kind of genetically enhanced superhuman who never, ever gets sick, but either way, it’s absurd, and it’s pissing me off.

Anyone can get pneumonia, and it can be a really big deal (I know this because it put my grandma in the hospital for two solid weeks in 2014), although the “walking” kind is a lot less severe. People with walking pneumonia are generally still able to go to work or school and participate in a lot of their normal activities, but they also need a lot of rest and really shouldn’t be doing anything strenuous, such as playing sports or campaigning for public office at the national level.