Make the healthcheck a command Quadlet can pass through

The first deploy put all three Sites up serving and permanently unhealthy: every
healthcheck run died with `/bin/sh: syntax error: unterminated quoted string`.
The unit file carried the closing quote, but podman's stored config did not.
Quadlet's parser strips a trailing double quote, so `node -e "fetch(...)"`
reached the container as an unterminated shell string. The sibling apps never hit
this because their HealthCmd is a bare `curl`.

The check is now `wget -q -O /dev/null http://127.0.0.1:<port>/healthz` — busybox
wget, no quoting, non-zero on anything but a 2xx — and the Dockerfile's own
HEALTHCHECK says the same thing. The vars comment, the unit template and the
deployment readme all say why it has to stay quote-free.

Found from the running container rather than the play output: `podman
healthcheck run` returned 1, `.State.Health.Log` held the sh error, and the app
log showed it listening on 127.0.0.1:3000 the whole time.
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@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ Network={{ network_name }}.network
# podman builds an OCI image by default and drops the Dockerfile's HEALTHCHECK
# instruction, so the same check is declared here and the play gates on it with
# `podman healthcheck run`. node is in the image.
# `podman healthcheck run`. wget is busybox's; see vars/default.yml for why the
# command must not contain quotes.
HealthCmd={{ health_cmd }}
HealthInterval=30s
HealthTimeout=5s