Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the best way to keep the general public healthy by promoting healthy eating and lifestyle habits?
Improving everyone's physical fitness with healthy habits, achieving peace of mind, and boosting each person's immune system should be one of the priorities of public health agencies, not looking for a quick fix that rarely works in the long term.
What moral standing do unhealthy people have when they demand the healthy completely upend their lives to take care of the sick with medical care, especially when unhealthy people are unwilling to change their poor physical fitness and nutrition habits?
I'll start with the assumption that you're asking about moral authority and this is not a Covid discussion.
Do poor people who are unwilling to change their habits have the moral authority to ask the more fortunate for assistance? Do unemployed people have the moral authority to ask employed people to subsidize them? Do laid off workers who might be able to find other work either in another location or another field have the moral authority to seek assistance from those who are employed? Do people who are disabled due to some accident they might have avoided have the moral authority to ask others for assistance? If the answers are no, whose responsibility is it? If no one is responsible to help the less fortunate or less healthy, are they to be ignored and left to suffer? This does not sound like a compassionate community to me.
Now, if this is a Covid question, and there is a way for each of us to help others avoid hospitalization and possibly death, is that a moral question? Of course, that might be a matter of answering "at what cost?" and perhaps that is a conversation to have.
If this question is about the need to upend our healthy lives to care for the sick when others should be doing so (paid professionals), that is another fair question. We ought not have to spend our time watching over the professionals' shoulders whom we pay to care for the sick.
I suspect there is some of all of this in your question. Unfortunately, after so much time living with the stresses born of Covid and the added stress caused by the public discussion thereof, all such questions seem to be more charged and difficult, and understandably so.
You're still laboring under the delusion that this 'covid' pseudo-crisis ever had anything to do with this 'public health.' It's been about expanding the capabilities and reach of a saturation-surveillance state all along, and it is succeeding at breakneck pace. 'Covid' is a ritual pyre for the public destruction of the Fourth Amendment, upon which foundation all our other liberties rely, and every time someone tries to trumpet their bipartisan virtues about 'vaccines', all they are doing is fanning those flames.
I'll start with the assumption that you're asking about moral authority and this is not a Covid discussion.
Do poor people who are unwilling to change their habits have the moral authority to ask the more fortunate for assistance? Do unemployed people have the moral authority to ask employed people to subsidize them? Do laid off workers who might be able to find other work either in another location or another field have the moral authority to seek assistance from those who are employed? Do people who are disabled due to some accident they might have avoided have the moral authority to ask others for assistance? If the answers are no, whose responsibility is it? If no one is responsible to help the less fortunate or less healthy, are they to be ignored and left to suffer? This does not sound like a compassionate community to me.
Now, if this is a Covid question, and there is a way for each of us to help others avoid hospitalization and possibly death, is that a moral question? Of course, that might be a matter of answering "at what cost?" and perhaps that is a conversation to have.
If this question is about the need to upend our healthy lives to care for the sick when others should be doing so (paid professionals), that is another fair question. We ought not have to spend our time watching over the professionals' shoulders whom we pay to care for the sick.
I suspect there is some of all of this in your question. Unfortunately, after so much time living with the stresses born of Covid and the added stress caused by the public discussion thereof, all such questions seem to be more charged and difficult, and understandably so.
You're still laboring under the delusion that this 'covid' pseudo-crisis ever had anything to do with this 'public health.' It's been about expanding the capabilities and reach of a saturation-surveillance state all along, and it is succeeding at breakneck pace. 'Covid' is a ritual pyre for the public destruction of the Fourth Amendment, upon which foundation all our other liberties rely, and every time someone tries to trumpet their bipartisan virtues about 'vaccines', all they are doing is fanning those flames.