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Is there reasonable medical consensus on whether fever-reducing medications prolong colds or flu because they somehow counteract the beneficial effects of fighting viruses at higher temperatures?

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Isn’t the pursuit of happiness or contentment with life a Sisyphean task because our evolutionary instincts will never fully align with our individual maximum, but rather always push towards our fitness for reproduction?

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Is there reasonable medical consensus on whether fever-reducing medications prolong colds or flu because they somehow counteract the beneficial effects of fighting viruses at higher temperatures?	1
Isn’t the pursuit of happiness or contentment with life a Sisyphean task because our evolutionary instincts will never fully align with our individual maximum, but rather always push towards our fitness for reproduction?	1