The article analyses the polarisation of society during the pandemic and the role of politicians, the media and the profession in publicising and solving the crisis, focusing on the issue of trust and the authority that these actors were supposed to have, but more often than not abused their power to create divisions and polarisation within society. The text also analyses the absence of the political during the crisis, which was replaced by the »professional«, the latter not allowing for any debate. The author backs up his observations with data from the measurement of public trust in state and social institutions.
