We’re glad to see a modicum of common sense break out over COVID-19 travel advisories.

Early last week, Pennsylvania’s increase in cases reached the criteria for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to impose a 14-day quarantine on any New York resident traveling to Pennsyvania upon their return to New York or for Pennsylvania residents to stay 14 days in New York before going about their business.

Everyone knew a 14-day quarantine was impossible given the number of people in the Warren and Chautauqua counties who work across their respective state line. Still, given Cuomo’s proclivity to issue threats of fines or additional shutdowns of industries that don’t do as he says, it was with a sigh of relief that we heard Cuomo say a quarantine on Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Jersey is not practically viable.

Of course, given the clusters of COVID-19 cases happening in Chautauqua County last week, Warren-area residents had to be wondering why Cuomo would be banning travel by Pennsylvanians into New York. Warren County has had 59 total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began while Chautauqua County has surpassed that in a few days in the midst of an outbreak at Tanglewood Manor and a cluster of cases centered around a private party in the Dunkirk area.

By rights, if there was to be a travel advisory, it would be for New Yorkers coming into Warren County. Of course, we know that’s silly. Yet that hasn’t stopped Gov. Tom Wolf from issuing such advisories and quarantine orders to residents of 23 other states.

Last week should remind anyone that such travel bans are silly notions that sound great in a press clipping but accomplish little in real life.