ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the key communication messages around the measures taken by the Polish government during the first months of the pandemic. Limitations of both civil liberties and business activities were taken in order to quell the spread of the epidemic. In return, the state offered a sense of security and financial support. However, apparent success in achieving a low infection rate raised many questions regarding whether all the decisions and introduced measures were legitimate and justified. The government controlled the flow of information on COVID-19 in order to silence critics as well to bolster their own as they prepared for the presidential elections. The ruling camp wanted to hold them at all costs, hence the handling of COVID-19 became as much a political issue as a health one.
