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Madrid was largely responsible for the Coronavirus to be spread all over Spain. Some scientists point to a soccer game that Valencia played in Italy but that was when people didn't really understand what was going on at the time, not even in Italy. Madrid can't make that excuse. There was a big rally scheduled for International Women's Day. They knew it would be dangerous and advised that it should be cancelled or rescheduled but Madrid allowed the march to go on anyway because that was the politically correct thing to do. The Prime Minister's wife along with a lot of other politically connected wives participated and many of them ended up testing positive for the virus. The marchers dispersed across the country with disastrous consequences.

As all politicians no matter where they live are wont to do, the ones in Madrid took a bad situation and made it worse. They imposed a lockdown on the entire country and we don't have a Bill of Rights to sue over it. My town, for instance, has 27,000 people, less than a dozen known infections and no deaths but nobody has been allowed out since March 14th except for "essential" travel like buying groceries. We are just starting a phased easing of restrictions but we were refused to ease because of a small rise in infections in a city 80 kilometers away, which shut down the entire province.

In a scene that is similar to New York, 2/3 of the deaths in Spain have been nursing home patients and the army had to take over many nursing homes because staff abandoned them, leaving the seniors to die alone. Of course the entire country is being treated as if the nursing homes are the norm. Every summer festival has been cancelled and, just to make sure nobody wants to visit, a 14 day quarantine is now mandatory for any international visitors flying in. For a tourist town like mine it makes for a brutal year.