Thanks all. I contacted the county extension office and they confirmed that the leaf curl virus is present in Pinellas County as well as various other counties in FL and said the plants should be destroyed.
I have found papaya to be very challenging to grow here in FL. At our previous house we had 100% chance of papaya wasps and had to bag each fruit. I also found odd pests on them them I'd never seen before, weird stuff like ultra fat green slug-looking things. Here at our new house, this was the first planting so we didn't even make it to the point where we'd have to worry about wasps.
When we lived in Hawaii, I saw so many of them growing in places, 100% ignored, and doing far better than anything I've been able to achieve here even with me serving as a constant nanny.
Perhaps this is the final sign to plant more dragonfruit, or some other fruit instead