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.
Personally, I'm hoping it makes all of those anti-vaccine idiots and others who take senseless risks with potential infection (like drinking raw milk) think twice about continuing their risky behavior. Not that I think they really will... they typically have magical beliefs surrounding their risky behavior, like believing that some magic food combination or supplement is going to "strengthen" their immune system (by providing a tiny killer T-cell shooting range, maybe?)
I do not wear shoes in the house, and I have a can of Lysol to spray the soles before I put them away. I don't touch public door knobs, etc. You shouldn't need an Ebola epidemic to understand the value of good basic infection control.