1) For your pedantry, imagine I have edited my previous mentions of it to "the model that the white house has been quoting in its frequent addresses that make up most of the nation's general information on the topic." even though that is long-winded enough to be understandably truncated.
2) It does not take rocket science to understand how a virus which causes extensive lung fibrosis will worsen respiratory problems in smokers, people who have had pneumonia, those with asthma, etc.
3) I really don't think it's that far fetched to say that when you have a currently incurable, non-vaccinatable virus in your system when you die of illness, that that virus contributed. All flus that stress the respiratory system put immense stress on the body as a whole, it's central to your bodily functions. You wouldn't say someone with untreated TB or HIV who dies of illness wasn't also killed by that disease straining their body and immune system.
4) I'm seizing on the highest-profile, most reputable names here. Especially on something so large scale and catastrophic, I'm sure you can find someone claiming it would be this bad much earlier being labeled a doomsayer, and someone claiming it's nothing at all being labeled a denier. This is such a means-nothing point it really begins to question if you're arguing in good faith or just trying to "GOTCHA" things for the sake of being contrarian. Who would you say is a higher profile, more reputable source of health-related information in the US right now?
5) Your conspiracy theorist is showing. You're telling me that politicians would willingly tank the national economy and stock market, hurting themselves and their donors far more in sheer magnitude of wealth lost than the rest of us, all the while printing money in the form of extra stimulus and unemployment payment that goes directly against that motive as well?
6) and you don't know the sun will rise tomorrow, except that you've observed the same exact pattern before and so you count on it. Influenzas with lipid-based coatings that falter in heat experience resurgence in the fall and winter. It takes more than 3-4 months for an infectious disease to run its course when you can be exposed, not develop symptoms for 14 days, experience it for 1-2 weeks, and shed the disease all that time from first exposure while also shedding the disease up to a week after recovery. The math simply does not check out that it would run its course that quickly.