Anti-vaxxers aren't laughing at Golden Globes' flu shot bit: 'Keep your poison'

Anti-vaxxers who tuned in to the Golden Globes on Sunday night took issue with one specific bit.

As LMFAO’s song “Shots” started playing, hosts Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh brought out people identified as nurses and told the audience to roll up their sleeves for flu shots. (It’s unclear if the shots were real, as one of the people administering them was comedy writer Bowen Yang.)

“You know you wore a sleeveless gown for a reason,” Oh told her fellow actresses.

While health professionals praised the gesture — real or not — on social media, those opposed to vaccinating their children had the opposite reaction.

“If you are an anti-vaxxer, just put a napkin on — perhaps over — your head and we will skip you,” Samberg told the Golden Globes crowd.

Heeding his advice to distinguish themselves, anti-vaxxers watching at home started posting selfies with napkins on their heads.

“I will proudly put a napkin on my head. Kids are dying because of these shots! Wake up, America! Can you not see it,” one woman wrote on Facebook, calling the segment “pathetic on so many levels.”

The anti-vaccination movement is a growing trend among parents in Western countries who refuse to vaccinate their children, though doctors have called the belief “propaganda” and a “regression in modern medicine.” As more parents opt out of vaccinations, outbreaks of measles and other viral illnesses continue to crop up in both the United States and Europe.

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