“I just got to the point where I thought I don’t have an excuse,” Stocker said.
He said his only remaining apprehensions about vaccination were the possible judgement from medical staff and the cost.
In 2017, he rolled up his sleeve for a series of vaccines which were free and the nurses “didn't make an issue of it”, he said.
“Those apprehensions were very unfounded and that was the last barrier to get through.”
Growing up, Stocker said his mum “didn't like the overmedicalisation of everything” and felt her children’s immune systems were healthy enough.
During university, he said a flatmate told it to him straight about immunisation.