local
“Relationships have become
stronger and more meaningful.

We’re very close now.”
DANIELA BURG
friends on the phone. Plus, she feels
closer with the fi tness women who she
has managed to keep in touch with and
continue to see.

Burg’s relationships are now about
quality over quantity, she said.

“Relationships have become stron-
ger and more meaningful,” she added.

“We’re very close now.”
In one sense, COVID has divided
and/or isolated people; but in another,
it has brought them closer together.

T.J. Kozin of Jameson believes it
might be more of the latter.

Even political polarization, usually
considered a source of division, has
connected people around mutual inter-
ests, according to Kozin. And these are
oft en people who, in less political and
local times, may never have spoken.

“A lot of people just went to work,
cooked dinner and went to bed,” Kozin
said of pre-pandemic times. “Now they
might go to work, come home, go to a
school board meeting and go to bed.”
Fred Poritsky, a Richboro resident
Furlong resident Daniela Burg now works from home, which has both good
and bad points.

Courtesy of Daniela Burg
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