BioWatch determines that a large load of anthrax spores has been released in, pick a section of a city.
Everyone likely to have been in the plume needs four high doses of ciprofloxen, now, or the casualty count will be in the millions. This is the problem they are trying to solve, not government health care, socialized medicine or like that. A response to a bioterror attack. We must have a plan. It does not matter who is president, we must have the tools in place to protect large segments of the population. Part of this is dosing the population with prophylactic doses of pharmaceuticals. People have been planning the response to a bioterror attack for decades now.
UPS and FedEx are simply not equipped to deliver a package to every address- they deliver all over, but not a hundred thousand in a week to one zip code. USPS actually does this daily in urban areas, I live in one and they deliver junk mail all the time. If the private parcel companies could deliver junk mail cheaper they would. Instead of junk mail, USPS will deliver antibiotics. It will not be a normal mail situation, it will be a wartime activation.
In this implementation they will knock on every door, even the apartments where the residents have a box at the PO.
I don’t know how it will be paid for. This will be a response to an act of war.
If you, right now, got a robocall that said there had been a tularemia attack (or Q fever or brucellosis or anthrax) in your neighborhood and you had better get cipro or some other antibiotic right away or die, what would you do? Call your doctor for an appointment/prescription then go to the drug store? Imagine the waiting line!
In this plan, there will be massive radio/TV/Cable/Newspaper alerts and a guy at your door with stuff that can save your life (you can of course flush it down the crapper, your choice).
The Amerithrax cases after 9/11 involved possibly two grams of anthrax spores total- it’s potent stuff we have been worried about since 1941. Imagine a kilogram release, look up Sverdlovsk anthrax and see how many died.
What makes you or anyone think that a postal worker is going to willingly go out and about with a bioterror attack in effect OR pending OR possibly pending?
I'll have to go to the P.O. and find out how they're going to deal with this here. They would have to hire someone to do deliveries.
OTOH, maybe this is geared towards big towns only.