The government’s takeover of slaughterhouses seems ineffectual: this week, butchers killed and dressed 32 cows for the entire city. Farmers are unwilling to sell their cows at a loss.
“There are no IV fluids to speak of; no sticks to check for diabetes, no opioid analgesics,”
Pretty soon they'll have no choice, as the local Big Man rolls up in his Benz with a platoon of soldiers and a fleet of trucks to haul the herds away.
I'm sure the suffering is dreadful, but we should not lift a finger to prevent the coming catastrophe. The worse for Zimbabwe, the better for the rest of the world. Nothing is more important to the well-being of the human race than snuffing out the last vestiges of Marxism, collectivism, and populism once and for all.
This will be an object lesson in economic laws that will be in the textbooks until the end of civilization.
Price caps, destroys cities and Countries every time it is tried.
The money is worthless, so it’s a division by zero error, or somethin’. :’) I’ve actually known someone from Zimbabwe. He fled a few years before I met him, and he was pretty circumspect and reasonable in what he said about Mugabe, but was sure that it was only a matter of time. That was five years ago, when the situation was much better than now. :’) Wonder what he’s thinking now?
Final disposition of the last of the food will come precipitously; normally we can go three minutes without air, three days without water, and three weeks without food, but much of the population probably hasn’t been eating that well for a while.
My prediction is that Europe will step in.
Oh, and the US will be blamed for paying too much attention to Somalia and not enough to Zimbabwe.
In the meantime, the Moslems’ slaughter, maiming, and enslavement of non-Moslems will continue in Sudan.
And Libya will pursue its vilification campaign against Bulgaria (but not “Palestine” apparently) over those nurses held illegally for eight years.