He's just here for emotional conflict. Numbers don't matter.
I had a medical scare recently. I had a bunch of red spots appear on my arms. Googling suggested metastasized melanomas or cherry angiomas. But they slowly changed color to brownish, which those don't do. A week later, a fresh batch cropped up.
We figured it out. I was frying things in canola oil in a shallow pan, pot stickers and then crab cakes. I didn't much notice the hot oil spatters when they happened.
The cure is to use a deep pot which catches most of the splats. That does make things a little harder to flip.