The article proves that the pandemic of acute respiratory disease COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2and the practice of countering it are events whose nature is marked by features of the singularity. As a result, the establishedorder of functioning of the social organism and the subsequent history of mankind is changing forever, because both theCOVID-19 pandemic and its means of neutralizing it, combined with many manifestations in other social spheres, cancause a number of negative consequences, including chaos, anxiety, panic, uncertainty of society in the future. The obviousfeatures of the singularity of Ukrainian society in the pandemic period are illustrated by the results of surveys of thepopulation of Ukraine and specialists of critical infrastructure of society – medical staff about their attitude to theconsequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and ways to eliminate these consequences. It is argued that the attitude of thepopulation of Ukraine to the pandemic and its consequences is precisely a reflection of the singularity of its massconsciousness. At the same time, this state of mass consciousness is, on the one hand, one of the peculiar manifestations,and on the other hand, the source of many other negative socio-legal and criminological consequences of the currentpandemic. It is concluded that both the social consciousness itself and the consequences it generates should be regardedas singular in nature. The practice of countering the COVID-19 pandemic is also marked by features of the singularity.At the same time, the main indicators of the singularity of the pandemic control processes and the mass consciousness ofthe population of Ukraine are the negative socio-legal and criminological consequences, the effect of which is prolongedto the so-called post-pandemic period. Such consequences include: general deterioration of the public health of thepopulation of Ukraine; the decline of the economy and its further slow recovery, which will be accompanied by a changein its traditional forms; even more widespread format of social isolation of a person with all the negative manifestations;the loss of unity by society due to the different attitudes of certain segments of the population to the need for anti-epidemicmeasures and to the state policy of the quarantine as a whole; the emergence of the so-called pandemic criminal, whowill try to expand their criminal activities to various spheres of society; suicidal tendencies; etc. Key words: pandemic, coronavirus disease, COVID-19, quarantine, singularity, mass consciousness, socio-legal andcriminological consequences.