You quoted two statements. For the first, I'm not going to further defend it, see above, it is widely accepted these days. For the second statement there are t

You quoted two statements. For the first, I'm not going to further defend it, see above, it is widely accepted these days. For the second statement there are two assertions, that the country is mostly vaccinated, and that no herd immunity ever showed up. The country is mostly vaccinated, so I think you must be questioning whether herd immunity showed up. I do think some amount of immunity showed up, if by immunity you mean spreading a little bit of Covid but not as much as if you had not been vaccinated and were unfortunate enough to get a serious case of it. But I'm not sure that would qualify as "herd immunity".