@RodrickSage Anyone who tells you with certainty what this is, is likely lying to you and shouldn't be trusted.

And why would people need to be distracted from any recent event? Are they rioting in the streets? Is it purge day or is everything the same as it was the day before?

Maybe it's some sort of military drill, maybe it's preparation for their 15 minute cities, maybe it's for a false flag, or it's something else entirely. It will probably end and be memory holed in the next few weeks.