AIBU to wish Angela Merkel well?

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I've had a look for another thread on this so I do apologise if there is one.

I just wanted to wish her well really. Nothing else. I'm a little apathetic about her politics to be honest - never really looked at it too much in depth, but she has a stoicism akin only to our Queen.

I really hope it was just dehydration - though I suspect she TOLD the doctors that that was all that was wrong!

I feel like she's the only grown up still running things and works incredibly hard. So yes I agree with you. I'm not sure her stance on immigration didn't inadvertently lead to a lot of the rise in fascism though, even if she was trying to do the right thing.

Gosh I felt so sorry for her. How awful for her with everyone watching.

That can't be dehydration surely?
How awful for her.
Yanbu.

I saw this and wondered why the fuck the bloke stood next to her appeared to offer her no assistance at all

It reminded me of Hilary Clinton a few years ago. At least folk tried to help her

AnyFucker I don't think he knew it was happening - he appeared to be staring forward and possibly she was out of his sight line.

Poor her - it's hard to imagine that dehydration would make you shake so violently. I hope she's all right.

Somebody shaking so violently would definitely catch your eye from your periphetal vision

I had no idea. Yes I have a lot of admiration for her

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I saw that too, I have a lot of admiration for Angela Merkel and wish her well

I saw this and wondered why the fuck the bloke stood next to her appeared to offer her no assistance at all

^^ this. She's standing slightly in front of him in the video. That may be the camera angle but he must have been aware. But maybe he was thinking that, if she didn't turn to him for help maybe she wanted to battle on and not make a fuss.

He probably didn’t know what to do. Helping her would be making a fuss, not helping looks callous. Plus they were standing for a national anthem or something at the time, by the look of it, so it was a ceremonial moment.

Looked bad, I was shocked to see that.

I can’t believe that no one went up to her to make sure she was ok! Awful watching her suffer visibly for so long.

I felt so bad for her watching that.
I think she's an incredibly strong woman.

I saw this and wondered why the fuck the bloke stood next to her appeared to offer her no assistance at all
Because he's the newly elected Ukrainian president, a comedian totally out of his depth, whose previous top achievement was playing a piano piece on the stage with his penis, and is probably paralysed with fear and about to faint himself.

That might explain it

I saw this last night, I hope she's OK too.

Her people noticed but it seems no one came to help because they were playing the national anthem, or so that’s what I thought.

Very uncomfortable viewing. Someone should have come to her aid surely, National Anthem or not. She must have felt very ill at that point. She appeared to recover quickly afterwards.

I kept thinking someone will come over to get, but they just left her.

She is standing down in 2020 or 2021?
I hope it’s nothing serious.

She strikes me as someone who would have pulled the cannula out of her arm and demanded to get back to work. I've no idea what causes such tremoring, but it must have been incredibly scary to feel so powerless to control it. Haven't seen any news coverage today saying she's ok?

She make a video statement shortly afterwards and looked absolutely fine.

There wasn’t much in the German media yesterday, she said she was dehydrated and three glasses of water fixed it.