You can die from fever, so taking or doing something for controlling your temperature seems a good approach for avoiding that. But if you only care about that

You can die from fever, so taking or doing something for controlling your temperature seems a good approach for avoiding that. But if you only care about that symptom, and forget that it comes from a disease, infection or something like that, it won't be a solution, just a short-lived (as you) mitigation. If the message is to not mind about the source, it won't be addressed, and the mitigations may or not work, or turn the original problem into something much more complex or harder to solve. I'm not talking about the future, but about the past. The problem was known, and put under the rug, dismissed, ignored, and delayed, even if there was something that could had been done about. Then nothing or too little was done already, and while a lot of effort will be diverted to short term mitigations, nothing will be done in the future neither.