Hence you make my argument for me and CHANGE your verbiage. 10's of thousands did NOT take CIPRO they were OFFERD IT. Exposure to the places where it was is not exposure to Anthrax. The spore has to be breathed in for the symptoms to develop, several DID die from this and that is not argued, what IS argued is the delivery method...it stunk, it will do very little for the effort, especially now with may mail, shipping and other such facilities having detections like the ones we have in the military.
Just about everybody on Capitol Hill working for Congress had it available.
And Dept, of state and DOJ and more...VERY FEW TOOK IT. You just can't seem to admit that.
Things may have been different in New York ~ maybe someone was trying to balance the fire department's budget by holding back CIPRO.
What an idiotic and vapid line, it smacks of sour grapes whining. As for the money, I would not know, I simply fought fires and answered to on scene calls when called, that was between deployments in the military.
Every person in the United States had a smaller chance of being exposed in that manner but one elderly lady in Connecticut died due to cross-contamination.
I knew many people who'd done nothing but visit a building that had a small amount of contamination and they elected to take CIPRO for many months.
The question was whether or not the CIPRO was handed out like candy ~ not if folks actually took the stuff. Many walked off with it to use later if necessary.
I certainly would not have waited for symptoms to appear if I'd thought I'd been in contact with contaminated equipment. I knew where to pick it up at work, and with no questions asked.
As far as you needing more personal information in regard to CIPRO use, I don't know anyone who admitted to using it as a suppository.
Does that satisfy your curiosity?