I said I'd go anytime of any day - strange though , I'm not sure many parents would have sent in such a request though , might be wrong 

Do you not trust your school to do it right? I’m fully confident that my daughter’s school will do everything they possibly can to ensure social distancing though of course they will never be able to guarantee it 

Whenever I've seen an estate agents "video tour" all they seem to do is a video which shows the photos you can already see but in a fancy way. 

Maybe they are still trying to work out how they are going to do it? To be fair to headteachers it must be a logistical nightmare. My school is opening to more children from the 14th of June but we haven't had any details on how it's going to work yet. 

I've seen some which have a Google  Streetview type thing... the snag is those make the place look as small as it is, whereas the camera always lies with estate agents, hence the carefully chosen shots. (A classic is the massively wide cabinets which give the game away).

As for schools, I would have thought in this day an age a Tweet on their feed showing a classroom would be enough.

truth, painful, Maunder?? Pigeons coming home to roost me thinks...let’s face facts..you didn’t  care one iota about what was going on in care homes prior to Covid 19...chronic underfunding, massive staff shortages , here on the south coast, owners of care homes unable to recruit suitable staff from the local population...categorisation of care workers as unskilled...Do you really think Patel’s objectives are to massively upgrade salaries and career paths for carers and encourage local people to consider this as a new career and to retrain? No I don’t, either....she is pursuing her populist, anti immigrant agenda in her usual graceless manner! 

The NHS are still recommending sunshine!
 https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/how-to-get-vitamin-d-from-sunlight/

Maunder is now reduced to saying "Bull", no attempt at an argument. That's all they have left now their emperor has been exposed as naked

To be fair he's not the only one. 

This guy does some good videos looking at the evidence - references the study done by Prof JoAnn Manson at Harvard Medical School a couple of weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fxw3nTZYlA

Because it is complete Bull! We should have control of immigration and to say otherwise is Bull. If we need migrant labour, we can easily get it, there is no issue.

I just don't comprehend any other argument - no civilisation can survive with completely open borders.

Besides, the economic consequences of COVID-19 mean that there won't be any shortage of domestic labour for some considerable time.

Its not a matter of trust its peace of mind and as its my daughter I want to make sure I'm comfortable with the set up

As a Father I have every right to ask questions and view what's in place , to just say " no that's not possible " isn't good enough 

NHS website disagrees, saying that for most (sc white) people in the UK with a reasonable amount of outdoor exposure, you should be able to generate enough vitamin D during the months March - Sept. Health food sites of course play this down and try to sell you supplements.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/how-to-get-vitamin-d-from-sunlight/

There is some argument that Caucasians managed to settle northern latitudes partly because of this, partly because the ability to break down lactose in milk is a genetic modification widespread in Caucasians, and milk is a good source of vit D. (If you can't break down lactose and drink milk, the bacteria in your gut have a field day, with distressing results). That argument is shaky, though, because the ability to break down lactose has also been found in a number of cattle-rearing societies in Africa and Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance#Epidemiology

Caz, here is the lady herself Prof JoAnn Manson - https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/930152

I've also seen a number of studies talking about the importance of gut microbiota in immune response. A few studies have pointed to the link between gut microbiota and response to respiratory illnesses. I'll dig em out if I get chance later.

Going well in France, I see... from the Tele's live feed:

French schools shut after child tests positive

Seven schools in the north-eastern French city of Roubaix have been forced to close after a child tested positive for Covid-19

French schools began to reopen last week as the country slowly eased its lockdown. But many were concerned about the move, with one poll showing 69 per cent of respondents thought authorities could not keep them safe.

Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer told French broadcaster RTL on Monday that 70 cases of the virus had been found in the roughly 40,000 schools that have opened since last week.

All affected schools had been shut and number of other schools have since closed as a precaution, he said.

To my mind, that means the protocols are working - they detect cases and close the affected school(s) - 70 cases out of 40,000 schools does not sound like a terrible problem to me.

Bear in mind France is reporting hundreds of cases a day, rather than the thousands a day we're seeing. I still think we're seeing far too many new cases at the moment! We're still seeing around 3500 a day and it's not falling especially fast either.

(Last 5 days with data from Worldometer for France: 204, 636, 810, 637, 453)

.... with the widest angle lens possible to make everything look bigger 

That's probably true as things stand. I think "uncivilisation" is a better word. What you are really saying is that we've got the good bits of the world and we ain't sharing it with you! That is the status quo I accept but let's not dress it up as being a noble thing. I would have a borderless  world but I know it is not possible the way the world is now but I don't have a problem dreaming of Utopia.

Off topic, but our last house had a small back garden - when we put it on the market, the Estate Agent glossy landed for our property and the back garden looked at least twice the size it really was. I said to my wife at the time - why would they do that (produce a distorted image)? Since people would only be disappointed when they came to view and saw the reality, which would surely make them less likely to want to make an offer.