Thank you telling us the recent story. Many doom-and-gloom writers would not want to mention possible good things coming from a disaster.

The Aral Sea shows an ineptness of governance. The western world may look at this example as "we wouldn't do something like that" so democracy is better than communism. But Covid-19 shows many democratic nations were not prepared.

Time for a new way of governance.

Tiered Democratic Governance

http://www.tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/tdg.php