I think they are preparing for billions of people coming down to see the eclipse - but like most of their preparations - they are just using that as an excuse to put in more surveillance which will never go away after this "event". That's what they did for the Democratic National Convention here in Denver in 2006 - they used that as an excuse to install a ton of cameras downtown and also to make it necessary to get an id sticker when entering all hospitals - and other places of that nature - and they used the covidiocy plandemic lockdowns to install a gazillion 5g towers - doesn't it look like the 5 of cups hand is putting the moon over the sun? Like it's being used for a purpose...
This makes the most sense... They wouldn't waste an opportunity like this.