I'm not sure it's regulatory capture. I'd say most of the times it's death by a thousand cuts. You have a place that has obvious hygiene issues, e.g. only one

I'm not sure it's regulatory capture. I'd say most of the times it's death by a thousand cuts. You have a place that has obvious hygiene issues, e.g. only one sink and everything is done there. Then some people got sick because that place was just careless. Now you have people clamouring "how could this happen?" "something must be done!" and a new regulation is put in place, and in isolation, it's not necessarily stupid. Repeat this many times, and you have the situation s people are talking about here.