I assume you're using sarcasm in the first part there, but that in turn it's you who aren't getting the point. All companies may not have backups, but all companies could have backups. And the industry as a whole could be taking far more measures to mitigate ransomware, it's not some impossible problem. As well as prevention measures, ransomware is quite detectable actively because it necessarily changes the entropy of stored data in extremely obvious ways that a watchdog could detect. Or there could just be automated systems that constantly sample backups and verify they're restorable. If companies don't do that and choose to externalize some of the costs onto society (by funding criminals who will go on to hurt others in this case) it's completely appropriate for government to step in and stop them. There are lots of situations where people and organizations are expected to exercise reasonable diligence or face the consequences.
In contrast, at least for now backing up humans is not in fact an option. People aren't being lazy or failing to make reasonable efforts by failing to back themselves or their dependents up because that just doesn't exist. It's not the "same logic" at all, and how you made the mental leap of equating perfectly reproducible digital data with children is a real question.