The FMV of what they’ve put into this thing is a quarter-million easy,

If it was worth anything , clearly this product is worthless

As the entire global economy continues to “tank,” ...

I'd argue if that happened, WW3 would have started already, but I don't see that

What to do? How can these scenarios be turned around?

Clearly , the best thing you can do is ask a bunch of volunteers for advice, they must be business bazillionaires with all this free time they have to volunteer