Welcome to ABG, Asian Boss Girl, a podcast for the modern-day Asian-American woman.

I'm Janet, I'm Mel, and I'm Helen.

All right ladies, it is summer, which is usually a time when we all get to go outdoors,

and when we get to get sunshine, be with friends and family, and like generally be out

with like a lot of people. For this year though, I know that this summer season has been a little

unique because we are coming out of what we hope to be the tail end of a global pandemic.

By now, you know, I know the three of us are vaccinated and most of our family and friends are,

but there's still a lot of people who have not been vaccinated and COVID is starting to pick up again.

Yeah, especially with the recent news of the new Delta variant coming out.

It's a little scary. Yeah.

It is definitely scary and you know, it's starting to pose a threat and we're actually starting to

see even with an L.A. different places where new rules are being created. So it really feels like

it's you know, the longer that we delay getting more people vaccinated, the longer it will take for

all of this to pass essentially. So in 2020, we did an episode on COVID and we talked about our

experiences when it first started. Yeah. And now that we're kind of like over a year out,

we thought this is a good time to kind of talk about what our experience is like now with the

state of COVID. I feel like we're hitting another point of transition even within the COVID I guess

era or time. And we do want to give a shout out to the US Department of Health and Human Services

for making this episode happen. For those of you who are not vaccinated, go to vaccine.gov

for further vaccine info and find a vaccine center near you. Everyone 12 and over is eligible.

But today we do want to talk about how you know, our lives have been impacted by being vaccinated

and how our summer plans have changed or have has evolved from last year. So the three of us are

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