Isabel Díaz Ayuso's attempts since 2020 to defend her management of the Covid-19 crisis in nursing homes are a long list of often antagonistic excuses. Propaganda experts have identified a common strategy that consists of “flare disinformation,” referring to the decoys used by military aircraft when they seek to evade an infrared-guided missile.

Politicians who use these methods come to disseminate dozens of different theories to defend themselves, incurring contradictions that are no longer important. The Madrid president said this Thursday that older Covid patients would not have recovered in hospitals.