Naturally it is easier to get people to respond when people believe it is going to hurt them. I would also point out here though that most Covid measures were not offered up to people to protect themselves, they were offered up on the basis of doing certain actions because they would benefit other people that are actually at risk. So yes it is easier to motivate people into action when there is something that will actually hurt them, but that isn't the case with Covid measures as they were all about protecting the vulnerable, not the average person who isn't at risk, right?

The point is that if the big thing is health, then why is something that is 100% fixable today still going on? My memory may be wrong on the exact details but I think it was the UN that called I want to say Elon Musk out saying that if he just spent his billions world hunger could be solved right away. We are told things like this all the time, if the rich paid their fair share nobody would be hungry. So on the one hand covid and vaccines were necessary to protect somebody other than ourselves, but when it comes to people dying of starvation it is suddenly no longer important. Trillions of dollars are tossed around all the time by our government and both sides often complain about how much we waste money, the left usually points out our military budget and activities, while the right always points out things like welfare though are beginning to catch onto the military scam as well, the thing we all agree on is that trillions of dollars are getting completely wasted. So now, if everything is truly about health as we are supposed to believe is the case, why is something that apparently a billionaire like Musk or whoever could solve with their own personal wealth still even happening despite governments handing out billions even trillions to other causes like candy.

The purpose of OPs post was to point out this disparity. Both cases it is not about the actual person being hurt, it is to take action that helps other people, yet there is clearly far more motivation to vaccinate people that arent at risk to help those that are vulnerable then there is to say... feed those exact same vulnerable people. So the question stands then, if the motivation is not health, what is it? I'm not offering up another answer mainly just saying look at things as they are and you'll find it isn't about health, so what is it?

Ironically most poor countries ignored "covid" and went on living life normally unlike the richer nations.