...the bans have NOTHING to do with health and everything to do with control...
Exactly!
I might add that the bans are but one of hundreds of look-good-work that politicians and bureaucrats engage in to give the illusion that they're earning a paycheck.
How is it that individuals and society prospered and increased prosperity for years and decades prior to last years laws and this years laws? How is it that people and society can flourish without next years laws?
Society prospered without those laws because adults were treated like adults.
Parents were also considered the best people to raise and instill values in their own children.
Those seem to be radical ideas these days.