The article attempts to analyze the sense of security, civil liberty and social trust in the situation of the pandemic caused by the COVID-19. The problem of the role of the state in guaranteeing social security was raised in the form of introducing various forms of recommendations (vaccines, masks, etc.) as well as restrictions aimed at increasing the level of security. It was indicated how important an attribute of the security guarantee is social trust \/ distrust towards the media message and people and institutions issuing \/ recommending these recommendations. There was also a problem articulated by a large part of the society that introducing covid is an attempt to limit personal and civil liberties. Attention was also paid to a very important security paradigm, a dilemma that is always difficult to resolve, how much, based on social trust, the state can limit civil liberties in order to increase national security without exposing itself to social protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n