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This whole Timmy story boils my piss. We treat humans much much worse, but barely bat an eyelid. We destroy all nature thus impacting animals like Timmy, but we barely bat an eyelid at that either.
Saving one whale as a token of how well we're doing... fuck right off.
What that article conveniently leaves out: The head veterinarian of those self coined "whale savers" is specialised on small animals (e.g. your cat, guinea pig, and hamster) and has no experience whatsoever with aquatic mammals, let alone large whales. She does like the challenge of trying something new, though, that's surely gonna make up for the lack of experience. A veterinarian from Hawaii with relevant experience quit the team weeks ago because she was afraid of losing her license back home over assisting those lunatics in their endeavour.
The entire operation is largely a PR stunt by influencers and other questionable characters, tolerated by a spineless and clueless environmental minister who is sacred of causing a shitstorm by doing the right thing, ending the whale's suffering as quickly as possible.
Intesting. Can you give some form of source please?
It has been all over the German media, it, of course, is all in German, but I'll look something up.
The state minister, Till Backhaus, is one of the weirder aspects of the story. At first he said something to the tune of "Yeah it's a whale, that sorta stuff has always happened in the Baltic Sea. People need to get a grip lol" until public interest grew nationwide and the rich dudes started their campaign to rescue the whale. At that point, minister Backhaus suddenly went like "Yeah I spent the night in the water next to the poor guy, he's willing to fight and we definitely need to help him!"
Spineless weasel with no sense of responsibility. Typical politician.