Well, I am up. In some time. They would still rather rappel than climb the stairs. And yes, their most sensual personal relationship is with their ice pack. It's not just in the White House that ill health has become an admission of physical or moral weakness.
Macho medicine is a national specialty.
Consider the way Americans are undermedicated and undermedicating themselves for pain. No pain, no political gain. Not that long ago, natural childbirth was regarded in the same category as a natural appendectomy. Now, if childbirth doesn't come naturally, mothers often regard themselves as failures. If the president wants to comfort the nation, how about showing it's OK to take it easy.