After reading OP's post it occurs to me that perhaps what we're seeing here, at least in part, is not necessarily the wholesale blaming of every death on CoViD as an attempt to obfuscate the truth. Rather it's the medical establishment pushing back because CoViD is a twist that they have no ability to win against. They can keep a diabetic patient, even a morbidly obese one with other compounding conditions, alive for years and they call it a success, as in "Horray for us, we are the great healers of men." But then CoViD comes along and they lose patient after patient despite the best tools that they have ie. choose to use. So rather than acknowledge that they either don't know shit or are using the wrong tools -- or more likely both -- they double down on blaming CoViD. This would also explain why they are so hopped up on everyone getting the vax despite the clear evidence that it is problematic to put it mildly.