Indeed. Shop for Israeli Civilian gas masks with extra filter attachments. Good advice, FReeper!
While I hope it makes more Americans aware of prepping and being individually prepared, I was really thinking of the authorities, agencies, the military, and the infrastructure of modern life, hospitals, first responders, homeless centers, transportation centers and airlines, schools, and so on.
A true dedicated biological attack would hit all at once in several places nationally and be designed to explode onto us instantly and spread as quickly as possible, now is the time to be working out the kinks and catching our flaws, and getting over our complacency.
To mention your point a second time, this is bound to be making millions of non-preppers realize that perhaps prepping for a few weeks of self protection and self-sufficiency isn’t so exotic an idea as they thought.