The point is that the people without them weren't reacting to the Sarin they would surely have been exposed to. Not whether they had such suits available. They would have at least had gloves of some sort, even work gloves and could have improvised masks out of all sorts of cloth.
No, I wouldn't expect them to have suits but I would expect at least some of them to also die from the Sarin.
100 posted on 04/07/2017 1:01:03 AM PDT by Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)