I'll always believe it was done deliberately. The Chinese leaders don't care how many of their people die. They are collateral damage. Now I see they are allowing families to have three children. Must be they discovered that the number of peasants got too low.
There's one food item that I have not been able to find for over a month now. That is Johnsonville Honey & Brown Sugar breakfast sausage links. Walmart is the only store that carries that specific type. The last time I found them I bought three packages and stuck them in my freezer, because they've been so hard to get. I cooked the last two links a couple of days ago. The package expiration date was May 24, 2021, so that tells you how long ago I bought them.
I called Johnsonville to let them know that their product wasn't available. All they told me was that I should talk to the manager of the meat department at Walmart, so I tried calling, and after being connected to to that department, it just rang, and rang...so I hung up. Johnsonville's website says the Honey & Brown Sugar links are supposed to be sold at my local Price Chopper grocery store, but I've never seen them there. So when I go there today, I'm going to try to talk to whoever orders the stuff to see why the website shows they're supposed to have them, but don't. They have other sausages by Johnsonville, Bob Evans, Jimmy Dean, etc., but those are my favorite, because of the flavors. I've found no other brand that makes a honey and brown sugar sausage link. Call me spoiled, but at 74, I know what I like, and don't like having to settle for something I really don't want to buy. That's one of the reasons why I won't use online ordering for my groceries. I don't want anyone else picking out my bacon for me. I'm picky about that too. I like my bacon lean, and wouldn't trust a store clerk to make sure the package I got had more meat than fat in it.
I read that the ChiCom's one-child policy resulted in the murder or abandonment of female children because males were much more valued in that culture. Now, there is a tremendous surplus of extremely depressed males who are committing suicide rather than spend their lives alone in forced labor at factories and such. The remaining females are suddenly valued. The ChiComs don't seem to learn.