@wesdym Most people in my friend bubble, inside or outside the US, are doing the same. That's not the issue really. Neither are the travel guides written by someone or some company a few years ago.

But governments have official travel advisories they regularly update — supposedly to protect their citizens — if there's something going on in a particular destination that is worthy to mention. Health & safety issues of all kinds.

I'm having a hard time believing EU countries forgot to in a year.

@phl They didn't forget. It just takes longer than most people realize.

There's also the issue of polity. Calling another country dangerous is a move you can't take back, and which will have real economic and political effects. You have to think very seriously about doing it. Official guides are inherently conservative about such things for that reason.

That's why we have to make ample use of spaces like this one, to get across urgent messages in a shorter time.

@wesdym All of the countries (be, de, nl, hu, ee) I looked at so far have had recent updates to the advisories.

Germany has exactly 0 comments for the US while it has a long "Teilreisewarnung" for Japan (partly because of the Fukushima exclusion zone). Hungary lists the US as "fully safe", Japan is "visit with caution; with a region not recommended for visit" (the second part just as with Germany, Fukushima). Belgium had some comments about the US, but it was completely OK for the Dutch too.