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A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

From my understanding, its mostly a logistics things. Some tiny towns are expecting to having huge surges of people and their infrastructure can't handle it. So they're telling people to stay at home instead and declared states of emergency. One school district already bought the glasses and are just giving them to students because of this.