Commander Poopie Pants and The Hong Kong Flu
Lest there be any doubt about whether or not Simulated Apollo 8 Mission Commander, Frank Poopie Pants Borman, pretended to have the runs or not in cislunar space, here's the Commander in his own words. I've quoted this before, but as some of my detractors have forgotten, I'll throw it up there again with the rest of the Apollo nonsense that's floating about, floating about threatening to infect our minds with smelly fairy tales. Here's Frank, he who commands all that's fecal and floats in cislunar space, with his watered down account of make believe weightless poop. His book is entitled COUNTDOWN with coauthor Robert J. Serling(published in 1988 by Silver Arrow Books/William Morrow, New York), page 205, 206;
" He and Anders kept the conversation down, but unfortunately I couldn't keep anything down. I became feverish and nauseated, vomited twice and then got diarrhea. I didn't know why. All three of us had been inoculated against the Hong Kong flu and at first I suspected it was that sleeping pill-I seldom take pills of any kind. Unhappily, I remembered spending two weeks in Gemini 7 and never getting sick. Apollo 8 was only fourteen hours into its mission and here was its commander feeling like a wet floor mop. It also may have been the weightless environment-Lovell had experienced nausea earlier and was to feel quesy again later; Anders was affected briefly too. The symptoms disappeared as we got accustomed to weightless motion.
I finally managed to doze off, and about 6 A.M. earth time I told Jim and Bill to get some sleep-they had been up for almost twenty four hours. We were 100,000 miles from earth and I was feeling a little better. I told CapCom I thought I had a case of the 24 hour flu, but I am not sure this amateur diagnosis was right- quite a few astronauts and cosmonauts have been afflicted with what might be called space sickness."
A few points worth making about Borman's statement. Let's start out with the "Hong Kong flu issue". Why the concern about the "Hong Kong flu"? We run into it not infrequently with respect to Borman's feigned illness. Apologists, at least those functioning effectively as official Apollo narrative apologists, are always quick to point out "IT WASN'T THE HONG KONG FLU, COULDN'T HAVE BEEN, BECAUSE THE ASTRONAUTS WERE VACCINATED".
What's going on there? First off, this is the first time these clowns with the gold fish bowls on their heads have pretended to engage cislunar space. The Borman illness is injected into the script to add "authenticity" here. It is a twist, given/written in by the Apollo 8 script authors to help mark the experience as new, part of a new grand adventure. Remember, diarrhea is not a manifestation of conventional space sickness. When Borman mentions in the end of the quote above that "quite a few astronauts and cosmonauts have been afflicted with what might be called space sickness." He cannot mean that quite a few cosmonauts and astronauts have gotten diarrhea in space. Matter of fact, according to Charles Berry in the Aerospace Medicine book I referenced just above, not a single American astronaut as of 1971 ever got diarrhea in space. It was an unknown symptom according to Berry at that time. I only emphasize that point here as there was/is no support in the medical literature of the time whatsoever, even from the QUACK Berry himself, for this Borman illness being space sickness based. That said, I do suspect that is what the script writers sort of had in mind. Regardless, Borman "has diarrhea", so the story goes, and it floats about the cabin along with his vomitus.
In 1968 and 1969, there was an influenza pandemic(Hong Kong flu) that took the lives of roughly 1,000,000 individuals worldwide. The problem was primarily an Asian one, though Australia, Europe and the Americas were ultimately infected. The virus reached the states by way of American Vietnam combatants.
Vomiting and diarrhea DO occur in cases of influenza, though this is more common in children than it is with adults. Nevertheless, the fraud perpetrators realized once they "gave Borman diarrhea" they had made a big big big big mistake, for many reasons as we have already learned, but I have yet to cover the influenza angle in any detail, until now.
So here you have a guy in a space ship who is pretending to be ill with nausea and vomiting and diarrhea in the middle of a worldwide influenza pandemic. So of course legitimate physicians would have thought, "Could Borman have this? How do we figure it out? This could be bad bad bad." And the reason that it would be bad would be that influenza causes respiratory illness, possibly pneumonia(deep lung tissue disease) and it is not all that uncommon to have bacterial pneumonia complicating influenza infection. Furthermore, the situation in the command module would be a set up for bacterial superinfection complicating primary influenza. This, given the fecal material containing bacteria, floating in this alleged zero-G environment. At any rate, were Borman ill with influenza/pandemic Hong Kong flu, all three astronauts would get infected, no question, unless of course they were all vaccinated and the vaccine effective.
Influenza in the Apollo 11 cockpit would be a medical disaster. I do not know if the astronauts were or were not vaccinated. The claim is that they were. But this would by no means guarantee immunity. This is not like being vaccinated for polio, or measles where you are pretty sure it's going to work. So the fraud perpetrators, the guys that wrote diarrhea into the script, created a huge problem for themselves. Notice how they simply claim Borman couldn't have had influenza/Hong Kong flu simply on the basis of his having claimed to have been vaccinated. But a physician would not exclude influenza on those grounds. A physician would exclude influenza on the grounds that there were no respiratory tract symptoms, myalgias(muscle ache, body ache) , headache, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, runny stuffy nose., and so forth.
So a physician is able to identify this ruse as just that, a RUSE, nothing more, nothing less. The perpetrators realized they botched it big time by giving Borman diarrhea, all the worse a "mistake" in scripting given pandemic influenza circulating at the time, something all were aware of, perhaps better said, reminded of after the fact. So what can they do? Say Borman didn't have influenza because he was vaccinated. An interesting space ship ride, is it not?
Also, Borman forgets to mention in this account, how he took a second Secanol pill. As readers recall, in the Life Magazine article written by the Apollo 8 astronauts in which each of the three gave a first person account of their pretended ride out to the moon, reading the Bible from an Apollo Command Module turned pulpit, Borman stated very clearly in that account, his intentionally having had taken half of a Secanol pill. This, given the fact that he had concluded the Secanol "sleeping tablet" had made him sick to begin with. So he claims he was "testing the waters" and rechallenging himself with the offending agent, to see if it made him sick again. DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE??????? NO!!! Of course this would never be permitted were this real, and so Borman leaves it out of this later publication, the COUNTDOWN book.
And finally, look at the outrageous threat here, were any of it real. But we know none of it can be. It is never acknowledged as the problem it was or could become in the context of future flights. Berry never discusses it as one would expect him to in the medical literature, including the aerospace text cited previously.
Right there, BOOM!, Apollo is proven fraudulent. All the missions, every single one. Not that they didn't do something. They did plenty. They instrumented the moon big time. It's just the operation did not involved manned landings as an aspect. Why even risk men given the objectives, even if one could land them?
Apollo was the genuine instrumentation of the moon with military equipment under the cover/guise of manned landings. It was/is with respect to the latter feature that we view Apollo as fraudulent.