Chalk it up to another incompetent performance by the Trump administration.....It's that simple.  When you put a bunch of unqualified cronies in charge of the federal government this is what you get.  

"Make America Great Again."  What a joke.....Sadly, a very deadly joke.  

@chain - I didn't necessarily intend it as a political remark, but the botched rollout (I stick by this accusation) could be Trump's final fock-up ... but he's still got a few weeks to go.

Some say that a celebrity death or suffering "puts a face" on the disease or malady - causing mere mortals to take it seriously.  Could be that.  But when I go out on my seldom and brief errands, I am still amazed at the numbers of folks who do not/will not wear a mask or socially distance.  Are these folks some how invulnerable to Covid?

Tonight - New Years Eve ... I stopped going out years ago (unless there was a good concert or show) to avoid the once-a-year drunk drivers (practice-practice-practice!).  Tonight, there's another good reason.  Selflessness is not an epidemic, pandemic or even mildly catchy.  Everybody wants to - nay - INSISTS on being the exception.  The holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years) have forever been the annual launch-pad for cold and flu seasons.  Too damned bad the roll-out wasn't started at Halloween.  We might have had a little immunity working in our favor.  Check back in 4- 6 weeks to see how many more we lose post holiday season 2020.

Happy New Year, everybody!

R

Ginger (Tina Louise) is the only cast member left. Ginger told the press Dawn was very friendly and sweet and she will always remember her big smile.

I'm so old I remember when Bob Denver (Gilligan) was on Dobie Gillis as beatnix Maynard G. Krebs in the 1950's. This was back when Camel Cigarettes were promoted on TV by medical doctors. 

Smoke the cigarette more doctors choose!!

I see people everyday at McDonald's or the grocery store etc with no mask and ignoring social distancing.  And when someone with the business calls them out they get mean and want to argue about freedom and individual rights. A maskless man at the grocery store cussed out the manager who called him out and eventually turned over his grocery cart spilling his selections for them to clean up and walked out. 

I have a good friend in a local hospital right now with Covid. He is 75 and sick. Hope he makes it. 

@robertdee  Making politics out of the pandemic still puzzles and worries me.  I get the whole, "personal choice" thing when it comes to making decisions that affect you and only you.  Smoke two packs of cigarettes a day?  Hey!  Your lungs - not mine!  Save the coupons on the back of the packages for discounts on lung transplant surgery!  But consciously deciding to take an action (or non-action) that possibly furthers the spread of said pandemic?  You're really peeing in the public water supply, here.  As much as I hate "meddlesome" laws - I can see where a temporary mandate for masking and distancing might prove beneficial for society at large.

And while I do not wish Covid on my worst enemy, some of these obstinate types are freakin' campaigning for it!  I'd go as far as to say that they deserve it should they get it.  My compassion for them (should this happen) is the same as I have for Donald Trump, Dawn Wells or my best friend - who literally succumbed to the virus last September.  I pitty and pray for all who encounter this virus.  But think with your brain - not your politics.

Rusty that is what the manager of the Kroger Grocery store told the man who was violating their Covid policies.  And that Kroger has longstanding rules that one can't be naked or barefooted or shirtless or in a bikini or drunk or smoke a cigarette inside the store. That this man was violating Kroger's rights.  

I have a friend who is 75 in a local hospital here with Covid. He and I shared the rent on a party pad when we were around 20. I'm 74. He apparently caught it at a wedding reception on December 20th. People took off their masks to eat cake and refreshments but the tables were more than 6 feet apart.  Several are now sick. The hole in this probably having too many people at each table. Also masks are not foolproof.  Certainly not all of the 125 thousand in the hospital today in US with Covid were without a mask. Indeed some masks are just 35 % effective.  I have KN95 masks which are closer to 80 % effective. 

@robertdee  Prayers and thoughts for your friend.  This virus doesn't give a rip about political affiliation.  Protect yourself - protect others.

Peace,

R

Hope your friend gets better

RIP Mary Ann

Agree, I liked her better than Ginger

Must agree, Ginger was super hot, she was great as that pseudo sex kitten type, but Maryann was just as good looking & hotter in her own way - like a Valerie Harper/Peggy Fleming type

what kid from back then couldn’t recite the theme song word for word today😁 - the Professor & Maryanne got short shrift in the original one, it went “the movie star, and the rest, are here on Gilligan’s Isle”

then it became “the movie star, the professoranMaryann, here on Gilligan’s Isle”

also went from B&W to color during this time

RIP, Dawn Wells

Yes Gunsmoke, Andy Griffith, I Dream of Jeannie, Gomer Pyle USMC and others that were on the air before the mid 60's went from B&W to Color about 1965 or 66.

You know I doubt I would buy a DVD collection of The Twilight Zone that had been colorized.  It was shot a certain way in Black and White emphasizing dark alleys and shadows etc. 

They had technicolor in the 1930's but before the late 50's or early 60's the cameras were big and the process was expensive so many movies in the 40's and even the 50's were shot in Black and White to save money. Snd especially those crime detective films with Humphry Bogart or Robert Mitchum were shot highlighting blacks, dark rooms and streets and shadows.  In other words many directors would shoot a movie differently if it was in the cheaper black and white.  

But by the mid 60's the technology had improved and the cameras were similar to black and white cameras and it was just as cheap to shoot in color so all movies were then in color unless they were looking for a special look as with Manhattan by Woody Allen or Lenny or The Last Picture Show. They were perplexed at how to get the depressed town look on the buildings and how to paint them and Orson Welles suggested they shoot it in black and white. Paper Moon, Elephant Man and Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein were others shot in black and white even thought then it was just a cheap to shoot in color.

I saw Dawn Wells in a western movie today and she was an attractive saloon girl. 

Russell Johnson who played the Professor is in several western films and TV shows as a nasty villain.  Saw him recently in an Audi Murphy western as a bad guy. And today he was on the old TV series Laramie.  Johnson and Lee Van Cleef ( the bad in good, bad and ugly) were the two henchmen who arrived in Laramie as paid killers.