Because for me eating and drinking is much more important than keeping the Bitcoins I have. As you said, if we don't eat it can get sick or
even cause death, nothing is more valuable than our health and life.
If you have 1BTC for example, you can easily get a good amount of loan from a trusted lender and you don't even have to sell your bitcoins. Once the price increases, you can sell a part of the bitcoins and repay the loan. One shouldn't rely on bitcoins for their food as investors because we all do something in real life that earns us money. When times are dire like the pandemic, you can use your assets and bitcoin to take loans and prevent being hungry.
No reason to keep yourself hungry when you can plan out smarty and avoid selling and being hungry both.