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When Hillary Clinton, a 60+ woman, is ill with what Americans call "stomach flu" (e.g. gastroenteritis, I believe - in Australia we call it 'gastro'), has to cancel a couple of trips, and is reported to have fainted due to dehydration and suffered a concussion...
... and you declaim that this is totally so that she can avoid testifying before a Congressional committee, when it has already been stated that she'll have to testify anyway at a later date.
Possibly, just possibly, the woman is ill, with an unpleasant illness that's really, really likely to lead to dehydration and the consequences thereof.
"If she was really that sick, why hasn't she been to hospital?"
Because she has gastro, not pneumonia, and she's been seen by doctors, who probably checked the concussion wasn't too severe, and then sent her to bed with a dozen bottles of Gatorade and told her to stay there until she was better. It's not a deadly illness. Fainting doesn't automatically mean you have to be on IV fluids - not if the cause of your dehydration and illness are clear, because you HAVE GASTRO. The poor woman has no doubt been having a miserable few days, and I suspect may have tried to work too long and definitely did not switch to chugging Gatorade soon enough, but... it's just gastro.
It's unpleasant. But unless you were already very unhealthy, people living in a first world country other than America, or who live in America but nonetheless have access to decent health care, it doesn't kill you... but it does excuse you from work.
Let the poor woman throw up in peace.
(Also, if you query whether she might be pregnant and then act all grossed out, you're a hideous misogynist and also incredibly immature. Because apparently you can't see women as anything other than baby factories.)
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