Tobin Harshaw, Columnist

Pack Your Bags, We’re Going on the Worst Vacation Ever

If you had 25 days off work, would you rather get norovirus or derailed on an electric train?

July 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s letters editor.

Sunscreen, with a side of norovirus. — Sunscreen, with a side of norovirus.
Photographer: Jose Jordan/AFP

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