...if it is brinkmanship the pathogen wants, it's brinkmanship the pathogen gets.
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Fevers are actually pretty neat and frequently effective at reducing illness severity and length. To the point where medical advice is starting to dissuade the use of antipyretics where the fever isn't coma-inducingly high, because they lead to worse patient outcomes.
Fever dreams are quite whack though.
Having just gotten over 2 weeks of covid, fevers are not neat
I mean, I'm not arguing fevers are fun. But if it weren't for the fever, it almost certainly would've been more than two weeks of even more painful covid (and presumably with a higher risk of long COVID).