I think that it is for reasons other than control.
See the conditions are completely unbearable for the human just like in Cultural Revolution, WWII or Red Cambodia.
But these all lingered for years or even a decade.
Depopulation through insanity is carried out deliberately; they know these measures do NOT work but they want to evolve society into a group of cannibal killers eating their own.
Not even that.
I think that it is for reasons other than control.
See the conditions are completely unbearable for the human just like in Cultural Revolution, WWII or Red Cambodia.
But these all lingered for years or even a decade.
Depopulation through insanity is carried out deliberately; they know these measures do NOT work but they want to evolve society into a group of cannibal killers eating their own.
It is controlled chaos, NOT pure orderly control.