Why did Trump want to send a hospital ship to Greenland?

[x31andy@mastodon.green]

Why did Trump want to send a hospital ship to Greenland?

You really can't make this up:

Jørgen Boassen a MAGA loving Greenlander (apparently there is at least one) was staying with Governor Jeff Landry for Mardi Gras and told him that his mother has been misdiagnosed and died of sepsis and that the health service sucked. Jeff Landry then told trump about all this and it turned into sending aid in the form of a hospital ship!

Bizarre origin of Trump’s plan for sending a hospital ship to Greenland revealed

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry suggested the idea of a hospital ship to Trump, claiming the island ‘absolutely’ needed the relief

The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)

#greenland #maga #hospitalShip

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@X31Andy

No, a sailor on a US nuclear sub off Greenland needed immediate hospitalisation, and Denmark/Greenland got him off the sub and evacuated him to lifesaving care in the Capital Nuuk.

It would have created a warm story of allies, mutual care, friendly Greenlanders, so Trump shat out a lie the press would replace it with.

Its always worse than you think.

Danish military evacuates U.S. submariner who needed urgent medical care off Greenland

Denmark's military says its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment.

Northwest Public Broadcasting (www.nwpb.org)

#greenland #trump #warmonger #tyrant #loon #uspoli #cdnpoli

[andreaslindholm@mastodonsweden.se]

@X31Andy If there is one thing I am confident in predicting, it is that the U.S. will not under any circumstances provide better health services than Denmark. I can't imagine what grade of rose-tinted glasses you would need to believe that.

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@andreaslindholm @X31Andy Yep. And the reality of life is that medicine is as much an art as a science. Misdiagnoses happen, also non-blameable ones, and patients die. Every MD owns a corner of a graveyard. And a corporate health care system that only the well off can afford doesn't perform any better on that.

[proscience@toot.community]

@X31Andy

There's no such hospital ship if US media can be believed.

It's as so often blatant, brazen lies.

[halaana@mastodon.social]

@proscience @X31Andy Between being in drydock at the time, and scheduled for further work in Portland, it seems doubtful it's going to be mobilised to Greenland (even if it were suitable).

[proscience@toot.community]

@Halaana

Yeah, it was reported that both US hospital ships are currently not available due to maintenance and overhaul/repair, and that another ship is being accommodated as a sort of "makeshift fallback option".

@X31Andy