Thank you for your post. Reducing a moderate fever is counterproductive! Many people reach for the aspirin or Tylenol at the first sign of illness. That's unwise, for the common-sense reasons you describe.
You'd do better to kick-start your immune system with zinc and echinacea. A convenient, widely-available and palatable form is "Airborne".
Note well that the 1918 flu pandemic occurred just as the wonder-drug aspirin had been introduced. I don't think that's an accident. It got people up and out sooner, encouraging the spread of viruses, and it damped down on their fevers, allowing the virus to more easily overwhelm their defenses.
And let's propose another First Rule Of Flu Pandemics: if you're sick, stay home!
Good points you are making there.
"And let's propose another First Rule Of Flu Pandemics: if you're sick, stay home!"
I couldn't agree more. But one of the worst offenders of that rule is parents. It's a running little joke that Moms have: "you give them tylenol first thing in the morning and then drop them off at daycare or at the bus stop. Their fever stays down for several hours and no one even knows they are sick until much later."
So they go to school with their fever artificially reduced and the virus has a chance to go nuts for awhile, replicating unchecked. So they are actually getting sicker even though their symptoms have abated. Then after a few days of this the virus really gains a foothold and they can wind up even sicker, with something like pneumonia. Not to mention that they are infecting lots of other kids, too.
And this is all because of the Industrial Revolution, where most families are two-income families and parents don't have enough sick time to stay home and take care of the kids when they have a fever. Most of these people are otherwise very responsible adults but when it comes to this they don't see anything wrong with it.