I’ve been to countries with significant travel advisories where there was actual tangible danger. I was fine, and I stood out more than anyone else. (Caucasian in a region where that’s uncommon, literally everyone stares. 100/100).
To categorize Florida in such fashion is laughable. Assuming you’re not purposely seeking out trouble in bad neighborhoods, which no one would no matter what the city/state/country, Florida is no more dangerous than any other random tourist spot on the map.
There was a lecture I heard about two years ago where depression/anxiety has never been higher than today, and the lecturer’s theory owed it to a lack of actual struggle. 2-3 generations ago, people had actual suffering and sacrifice, and that was the nature of life. People were mentally tougher because they could modulate between an actual crisis vs. an inconvenience. They had perspective. People didn’t have chronic anxiety for no apparent reason until recently. Today, we have magic cornucopias where struggle is defined as a shipping delay for an online order. The result: we have no perspective. When the worst thing that’s happened to most people is a gnat in their soup, everything becomes a tragedy. So, people are naturally more depressed and anxious today than they were with 25% unemployment and World Wars taking 100 million lives.
So when I hear Florida is under a travel advisory, I ask people go to a country with actual dangers. It’s rather eye opening. Florida is fine. Stop it.