Summary: ‘Sick of Madrid’ became a trending topic on Twitter, in a bid to ostracise the capital from the rest of Spain, which similarly occurred at the beginning of the pandemic. Madrid has a bad reputation, not only because their city was the epicentre of the virus in Spain but also because when the quarantine was first enacted in the capital many residents fled to their beach houses in Costa del Sol or Costa Blanca to ‘vacation’ rather than take lockdown seriously.
