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More so if one is very famous, like <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161029235723/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/HillaryClinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, and one’s gait and steely composure is globally recognisable. </p> <p>Fainting is weird to observe. Eerie, even. Yet at the same time it is wholly, perfectly natural. Completely human. The body, in the grip of illness, has temporarily eschewed the responsibility of balance and cerebral control. It happens to thousands of humans, for thousands of reasons, daily: in the street, at work, in restaurants, at public ceremonies. Fainting at weddings is exceptionally common due to nerves, skipping meals and heat exhaustion. </p> <p>Thankfully for Clinton she was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161029235723/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/hillary-clinton-collapse-democratic-candidate-diagnosed-with-pneumonia-after-stumbling-at-911-event-a7237551.html">flanked by a team of minders</a> and therefore avoided thudding to the floor gracelessly like a sack of spuds. Unluckily for Clinton, however, she was flanked also by the world’s media, and now her wonky stumble is world news. 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Age and illness, mental as well as physical, cannot besmirch them. </p> <p>Last week, I read a shocking accusation that Clinton, aged 68, may be wearing a hearing aid. Christ, I thought, I’m already at the point of leaning in and accusing young people of mumbling and I’m a sprightly 42. There is no hope for me, or you perhaps, in power.</p> <p>My main puzzlement over Clinton’s illness is how people in her position are not gripped by malady more often. Or, in fact, continuously? Political leaders’ wellness secrets have far more value than Deliciously Ella and the brigade of winsome chia-soakers. </p> <p>Clinton’s is a life of irregular eating, acute stress, school visits full of germ-incubating ankle-biters and being whisked into public municipal buildings with germ-strewn bannisters.</p> <p>Where are all the politicians with cold sores, stomach ulcers and “that flu bug that’s going around that they just can’t shake”? 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