People are reaching the limits of their physical and psychological tolerance with daily power outages, food and water shortages. Soon, many people will not even go to work. This will exponentially accelerate the societal collapse.
Imagine having 18 hours without power every day for months, and you barely have enough food to meet your daily calorie needs. You have 3 hours of electricity in the morning and 3 at night, so you only have 3 hours to cook. Then the country runs out of propane cylinders, so now you have to cook with coal, but coal is getting more expensive every day, and your monthly salary does not allow you to afford it. So you cook with firewood. Imagine going through this for months. Yeah...