sorry about your dad.
If he hadn’t contracted COVID he’d be alive today.
That's one of the criteria used by MEs and Coroners & Drs. for ages what gets included on a death cert or not.
Interesting article here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-covid-19-deaths-are-counted1/"
For COVID-19, the immediate cause of death might be listed as respiratory distress, with the second line reading “due to COVID-19.” Contributing factors such as heart disease, diabetes or high blood pressure would then be listed further down. This has led to some confusion by people arguing that the “real” cause of death was heart disease or diabetes, Aiken said, but that’s not the case.
“Without the COVID19 being the last straw or the thing that led to the chain of events that led to death, they probably wouldn’t have died,” she said.
note the qualifying word "probably".
I agree that people throw around the co-morbidity issue like few to none of the deaths are really from the virus, and I know that’s not true. Still, they ARE playing fast and loose with the numbers, what with George Floyd being counted as a CV death and the incident with the motorcyclist killed being chalked up to the rona. Too bad there’s no way to examine the cases they keep reporting. Too bad.