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But if a lockdown was an hour or longer, Chait said, “that would be a situation where we would tell our folks, ‘Yes, go ahead and gives kids access to their phones.’”

Harvey previously told BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme she wrote Orbital over the course of successive lockdowns.

But the current “green lockdown” has left her unimpressed.

Street takeovers have become popular in Southern California since at least the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and have drawn the ire of public officials and community members as they’ve continually proved deadly.

During the lockdowns, she said, neighbors helped one another and the building cultivated a sense of community — in part because people could afford to stay in the same apartments for so long.