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Is It Really Possible To Faint From Heat, As Clinton Claims?
forbes.com ^ | September 11, 2016 | Emily Willingham

Posted on 09/11/2016 2:04:34 PM PDT by ransomnote

During a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York City, Hillary Clinton reportedly began to feel unwell and needed to leave. As she was entering a waiting vehicle, video shows aides helping her into the car as her legs seemed to buckle beneath her.

Naturally, speculation about that buckling flamed out all over social media. People who dislike Clinton leaped to point to what they view as yet more evidence that she’s too elderly or frail or ill or something to be president. Those who want to tamp down that kind of speculation asserted that it was a hot day and she likely felt faint from the heat.

So then we got assertions on Twitter that fainting doesn’t look like that or that one does not “faint from heat.”

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But people do faint from heat, and yes, fainting does look like that. A statement from the Clinton campaign following the event said:

Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen. During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better.

Clinton herself came out of her daughter’s apartment building within hours of the episode and said that it was “a beautiful day” and that she was feeling better.

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KEYWORDS: fainting; hillary; hillaryshealth; msmlies
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To: ransomnote

Some old time Thyroid medication, in large doses especially can make someone very prone to elevated temperatures, LOL


21 posted on 09/11/2016 2:10:51 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

I haven’t fainted from heat, but I’ve been dizzy enough to sit and rest...and my military coworkers insisted I go to the first aid station and get an IV hooked up. But that was in Saudi Arabia, roughly 120 degrees on the ramp, and it was a single incident.

Hillary had dark sunglasses on, seems to have trouble walking more than 30 yards for months, collapses dramatically in 80 degree heat...and the media says it means nothing at all.


22 posted on 09/11/2016 2:11:25 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
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To: ransomnote
Stop it you deniers!

Hillary fainted, NOT from being "overheated" but from the over abundance of CO2 on Erf, caused by man-made Global WarmingTM

23 posted on 09/11/2016 2:11:38 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: All

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Guess what FOX’s take is?

It’s not, we were wrong, but rather — it’s still important to censor the Conspiracry Theorists and Docs that haven’t examined her!

So, they double down!

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24 posted on 09/11/2016 2:11:40 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: ransomnote

I think I came close to passing out once when playing basketball for hours in triple digit heat.

But never while standing around in the shade in 70 degree weather.


25 posted on 09/11/2016 2:11:54 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: MuttTheHoople

“78 degrees. 36% Humidity.”

I was in the Philippines at Christmas time years ago and the humidity was past that and it was 92. Christmas week dude. I never wore jackets there and my shirts were always drenched in sweat.


26 posted on 09/11/2016 2:12:03 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: ransomnote

If Hillary shows up in Phoenix in the middle of August what will happen, she simply bursts into flames?


27 posted on 09/11/2016 2:12:14 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump made his money and went to D.C., Hillary went to D.C. and made her money.)
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To: ransomnote

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/709081/Hillary-Clinton-health-US-presidential-election-year-vascular-dementia-claim


28 posted on 09/11/2016 2:12:41 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: ransomnote

Yes, but I doubt this was true in Hillary’s case. Why didn’t she remove her jacket? And she didn’t seem to be perspiring.


29 posted on 09/11/2016 2:12:41 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: ransomnote

Yes, it is possible but seems to me that the temperature has a to be quite high or the individual is has some medical conditions.


30 posted on 09/11/2016 2:12:58 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are Democrats who love war and illegal aliens)
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To: RummyChick

When it happened to me, I was limp as a rag. I didn’t have a seizure, which is what Hillary looked like today.


31 posted on 09/11/2016 2:13:00 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
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To: ransomnote

It’s a judgement issue, if nothing else. Protocols should’ve been in place to get her to a hospital to be checked out.


32 posted on 09/11/2016 2:13:09 PM PDT by grania (I'm Deplorable)
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To: ransomnote

Yeah but this “fainting” is chronic with Crooked HillRy.


33 posted on 09/11/2016 2:13:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ransomnote

Any other person who couldn’t stand, walk and is, in fact, collapsing would have been taken to a hospital for a quick look-see, at the very least.
I suspect they called medical personal, in additional to her “secret Service” special med handler, to meet them at Chelsea’s place.


34 posted on 09/11/2016 2:13:39 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: ransomnote

I hear half the women there had the Vapors and were rushed to Hospital.


35 posted on 09/11/2016 2:13:40 PM PDT by heights
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To: AnthonySoprano

It was 87. If your blood pressure is low going in, anything over 80 can get you. I doubt if she has low blood pressure.


36 posted on 09/11/2016 2:13:56 PM PDT by sparklite2 (The game overs whether you play it or not.)
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To: ransomnote
The bitch arrives in an air-cooled SUV from an air-cooled apartment, home or hotel, stands with the VIPS well out of range from the filthy, hot deplorables and turns into a statue before buckling onto the pavement and I'm supposed to believe she's got simple heat prostration?

I know heat prostration, Senator Clinton, and you ain't got it.

37 posted on 09/11/2016 2:14:06 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
Yes, it is possible to faint from heat. I’ve done it.

In 80 degree weather?

38 posted on 09/11/2016 2:14:21 PM PDT by SFConservative
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To: ransomnote

Groomsmen and Grooms faint at weddings because they got hammered at the bachelor party the night before. Penguin Suits and hangovers don’t always mix well.

I still suspect Hillary suffers from the same type of affliction.


39 posted on 09/11/2016 2:14:26 PM PDT by digger48
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To: gunsequalfreedom

Everyone is different and depends on many variables, such as health, state of hydration, how well they’ve slept, did they wear a proper meal before hand, physical condition, medications they take, etc. I live in Florida and I work out in the yard frequently when it’s 90+ degrees and a lot higher humidity than what she experienced today and I don’t faint, however Im in good health and not 68. That being said, I have a neighbor who’s is in his 90’s, retired Marine, WWII vet, and he and his wife are out working in their yard all through the summer and they could probably run circles around me. I think she is ill with somethinf and trying her darnedest to make it over the finish !line.


40 posted on 09/11/2016 2:14:42 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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