[verdverm]

> How does one come up with a true representative cost of the pandemic?

I don't think we'll ever know. It touched just about everything we do on this planet. Unprecedented effects, outcomes, and changes.

- died from COVID directly or exasperated

- life shortened by Covid, but most diseases have this effect as well

- life shortened by being locked down, mental health, not exercising

- died because they did not seem treatment / screening for other diseases (stroke, cancer)

Then there is all the economics stuff, which I'm not sure you asking about (to be part of the "cost")