"We" backed this horse and spent millions that may be wasted without an export market for this cheaper less effective version.

Not everybody taking it will be killed by clotting, just one in more than a million? But hey, who wants to be that particular statistic. Hands up all you useless old farts!

I get it's good enough for all the old, past their use-by date, farts!?

Who among those that decide, give a flying french Frankfurt if we take out one or two of the useless aged cohort!? Hmmm?

As someone very nearly killed by multiple P.E.s And in both lungs! I remember the mind-numbing pain and the months spent on the back recovering!

P.E.s are the cause of most of the sudden death in the aged cohort! And I was "lucky" to survive! And had I kept on taking the blood thinners indefinitely, would not have survived a later massive hemorrhagic stroke!?

But are the elderly cohort with their aged wisdom less valuable than many younger, less intellectually able, cohort?

I say let's export the Astra and crack on manufacturing the MRds!
And get those into as many arms as possible.

Finally, understand, that being vaccinated does not mean you can not get infected or transmit the virus to others!

So be careful as usual regardless of whether or not we get herd immunity!

After all, who wants to attend the funeral of a loved one you effectively killed with carelessness?

Just wearing a mask around the immune-compromised oldies, may be a trifle inconvenient? But it won't kill you!
Alan B

The Melbourne Demographic is a clear example of people failing the vaccine not the other way round !