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As to talking to someone outside the gate - the delta variant is said to be more ‘sticky’, more contageous in outside environs than the original Wuhan version (R=2-3 vs R=6+), so if he was talking to someone outside the fence without keeping personal distance, he was potentially endangering the driver. I think delta is now 1 in 5 new English cases and responsible for breakthrough cases, so they’re paranoid of it.
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Do you happen to recall where you read this? I have lots of questions, but I have seen few answers...

What exactly is “stickiness? Sticks to surfaces? Sticks in lungs?

Wondering why more contagious outside...And how is it more contagious...

this Indonesian article sums the finer points, i think:

medialnews, JAKARTA – The Delta variant is currently the most worrying variant of the Covid-19 virus. Health Ministry Covid-19 vaccination spokeswoman Siti Nadia Tarmizi said the Delta variant is six times faster than the Alfa variant.

“The increase in our cases is very significant compared to December 2020 and January 2021. The reason is the high mobility during the Ramadan and Eid holidays and lax health protocols,” he said in the schedule of the Guest Room webinar which was organized by Holopis Virtually in Jakarta, Tuesday (29/6).

According to Siti Nadia, the Delta variant speeds up the rate of transmission, but there is no strong evidence that the B1617.2 variant from India has the ability to reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine. For this reason, the government continues to seek to speed up vaccination to reduce the rate of transmission.

“Because in some areas we also find this variant,” he said.

The decreasing community adherence to health protocols, said Siti Nadia, has the potential to facilitate the spread of new variants in the community. “This delta has a transmission rate six times that of the Alfa variant. Our daily findings of cases currently reach over 15,000 people recently,” he said.

Siti Nadia added that an Australian newspaper reported the transmission speed of the Delta variant when calculated based on a time ranging from 10 to 15 seconds. “So people who walk by without wearing a mask can already make that person positive or infected,” he said.

While the old variant takes 10 to 20 minutes to be able to make a person exposed. “This delta can be 10 times the baud rate of the old variant,” he said.

https://www.medialnews.com/the-delta-variant-is-6-times-more-contagious-than-alfa/

more (lost the cite):
The Delta strain is the “most contagious variant we’ve seen so far,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.

and:
“The Delta strain has been associated with 2.61 times the risk of hospitalizations compared to the previously dominant strain in the UK....”
https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/features/health/with-the-more-contagious-delta-variant-some-officials-are-issuing-new-mask-guidance/article_4fba4a0c-6317-5498-b6b4-84db68847a91.html

and:
Mutations that help the virus bind more tightly can make transmission from one person to another easier. Imagine you breathe in a droplet that contains SARS-CoV-2. If that droplet contains viruses with better binding capabilities, they “will be more efficient at finding and infecting one of your cells,” says Nathaniel Landau, a microbiologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/10/1026090/delta-covid-19-variant-more-infectious/

and (pre-print)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.28.446163v1.full.pdf

"As to talking to someone outside the gate - the delta variant is said to be more ‘sticky’, more contageous in outside environs than the original Wuhan version (R=2-3 vs R=6+), so if he was talking to someone outside the fence without keeping personal distance, he was potentially endangering the driver. I think delta is now 1 in 5 new English cases and responsible for breakthrough cases, so they’re paranoid of it."

WGAF what the R factor is when the Delta is no worse than the source virus at 99.2% recovery.

The virus was Chinese-engineered to specifically overrun every. single. human. over given n, thus now that we have crowned over the tipping point of herd immunity and there is no chance of overburdening CCUs in 1st-world countries like the UK (if there ever was, given the big vast empty that were the unused field hospitals), every 1st-world lockdown action is kontrol kabuki that has long since actually played out.

The worst part is, is that you know this and you're just bored and trying to bait FRacebookers into pointless arguments...