“Step away from the plastic straw!”
How far from that are we? When a government wants to control your health care, what you put in your mouth to eat or drink, or how much water you can flush down your toilet, what is there that they cannot control.
Europeans have found this out the hard way via the oppressive regulations applied by their unelected EU overlords which delve deep into the most innocuous areas of daily life, but most (Except for people like Nigel Farage) seem to readily accept it.