Based on the typhoon rules, a typhoon not recurving out to sea and making landfall in Asia means a west coast trough and east coast ridge. This is not 100% but it usually happens. Look for the downstream effects to produce a sustained trough out here.
Even if it becomes more efficient at transmitting from person to person, seems unlikely it would do so in a big way in that short of a time. That process usually takes many months or years.
That was a totally genuine interaction. That is how my mom and my wife would react. You are just so jaded from years of supporting a self serving buffoon.