(June 9, 2015 at 3:40 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Nah, it seems like Greyscale can only be transmitted through direct contact with the infection itself. I mean, Jorah must've at some point brushed skin-to-skin with Tyrion while rescuing him from underwater, and he's fine. As far as the Stone Men go...their entire body is the infection, so any contact with them would spread it.
The point of the Greyscale is that it gives Jorah an inescapable death sentence, which means that he really has nothing to lose in his pursuit of serving Dany and seeing her on the throne. I believe the emphasis of Dany taking his hand is meant to be that she's accepting him back into her circle, at least a little bit.
WEll yeah, I get the point of her taking his hand,and the fact that he has nothing to lose. But honestly, he had nothing to lose even before he was infected (he's banished everywhere, old and would already die for her) so it adds nothing to his nothing to lose story.
Where did someone say you have to contact the infected part of a person? How did Shireen get it as a baby, then? Jorah has not touched anyone with a bare hand since he got infected, including Tyrion.
Does Jorah know exactly how grayscale is transmitted and that's the only way? If so, he never said that. It's a highly contagous, deadly disease that you get from touching an infected person. That's what we, as TV watcher know. It seems a lot like leprosy.
It just seems pretty cavelier to touch Dany with a part of his body maybe one inch from his infected bit (and it's spreading) if he's not 100% sure he can't pass it on to her.
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― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
