How many people died from COVID-19 versus died and tested positive for COVID-19?

Following W.H.O. guidelines, like many countries, Canada marks the deaths of all COVID-19 positive people as a COVID-19 death, regardless of whether or not COVID-19 was the actual cause of death. That is, a person may die of a clear, alternate cause, like a person given 3 weeks left to live who dies of emphysema, but is still calculated & recorded a COVID-19 death. This does not happen with any other disease.

For example, a person who tests positive with flu and dies of a heart attack will not me marked as a flu death. They are correctly reported as dying from a cardiovascular event.

• So, how medically accurate are COVID-19 deaths and the data?
• Why was the reporting of deaths only changed for COVID-19?
• Are the dictatorial government lockdown measures justified when the deaths from COVID 19 are admittedly inflated?