Ok, looking it up, the TV lore (not the books):
Greyscale (Game Of Thrones TV Show
"Stannis Baratheon explains to his daughter Shireen how she contracted greyscale as an infant, from an infected doll that he bought from a passing merchant ship from Dorne. By the time they burned the doll it was too late, and everyone said she would either die from the disease, or worse, live just long enough to become aware of the world before it was taken away from her."
"Greyscale is extremely infectious, spread through touch contact with an infected person, or even spread on unsterilized objects that have been touched by the infected."
So you can catch it from touching an OBJECT touched by an infected person. So not just the infected part of an infected person. So...Jorah is a possibly a walking contagion machine. If he knows even a bit about greyscale (and it sounded like he did when he warned Tyrion about them during that fight), then he shouldn't be going around touching bare skin to anyone he wants to live.
This is either a plot device that will come up later (like maybe Blood of the Dragon is immune or can even cure it), or else the writers are stupid asshats to have Jorah get this highly infectious disease, give us detailed information about how it can be contracted, through Stannis/Shireen storyline, and then pretend Jorah can just go around touching people without possible consequences.
Greyscale (Game Of Thrones TV Show
"Stannis Baratheon explains to his daughter Shireen how she contracted greyscale as an infant, from an infected doll that he bought from a passing merchant ship from Dorne. By the time they burned the doll it was too late, and everyone said she would either die from the disease, or worse, live just long enough to become aware of the world before it was taken away from her."
"Greyscale is extremely infectious, spread through touch contact with an infected person, or even spread on unsterilized objects that have been touched by the infected."
So you can catch it from touching an OBJECT touched by an infected person. So not just the infected part of an infected person. So...Jorah is a possibly a walking contagion machine. If he knows even a bit about greyscale (and it sounded like he did when he warned Tyrion about them during that fight), then he shouldn't be going around touching bare skin to anyone he wants to live.
This is either a plot device that will come up later (like maybe Blood of the Dragon is immune or can even cure it), or else the writers are stupid asshats to have Jorah get this highly infectious disease, give us detailed information about how it can be contracted, through Stannis/Shireen storyline, and then pretend Jorah can just go around touching people without possible consequences.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
