Maslow's hierarchy, though a flawed model, does offer some predictive power on the rational reasoning people turn mosquito nets into fishing nets.
You need food...basically now....a few times a day.
Mosquitos are a maybe once a day thing, and the diseases they might cause come with irregular frequency. If you can sleep with them biting you, you've satisfied the priority of Maslow for attending to Physiological needs before Safety.
I would bet that if the same villagers had access to an unlimited supply of these nets, once they had used them for every single conceivable method to feed themselves including agricultural uses, they'd inevitably end up covering beds at night.
You need food...basically now....a few times a day.
Mosquitos are a maybe once a day thing, and the diseases they might cause come with irregular frequency. If you can sleep with them biting you, you've satisfied the priority of Maslow for attending to Physiological needs before Safety.
I would bet that if the same villagers had access to an unlimited supply of these nets, once they had used them for every single conceivable method to feed themselves including agricultural uses, they'd inevitably end up covering beds at night.