An interesting look at behavior during an infectious disease outbreak.

Why _anyone_ would go around deliberately infecting people is beyond me but no matter the amount of personal moral outrage, this is part of human behavior.

Unfortunately in most real crisis this happens, take the floods in the UK, some got water from bowsers for other people, some took much more than they needed and others vandalised the bowsers, so nobody could have any.

"Why _anyone_ would go around deliberately infecting people is beyond me but no matter the amount of personal moral outrage, this is part of human behavior."

Because malicious people exist, and it's just a game. If I'd been in-game at the time the infection would have been present, I'd actually have sought out my friends and infected them, just to irritate them... because it's just a game.

Also, for the uninformed... this happened about two years ago, and was fixed within a day.

"it's just a game."

True, but the BBC news item implied that this is a response also seen in the real world. It was that implied human behavior that I was commenting on.