No, definitely not: ‘boids’ serve to show how synchronised collective behaviour can arise in swarms of agents that can observe only a handful of their closest n

No, definitely not: ‘boids’ serve to show how synchronised collective behaviour can arise in swarms of agents that can observe only a handful of their closest neighbours whilst following pre-determined rules. Virii have no such perceptive capability. S-I-R (Susceptible, Infected, Recovered/Removed) models of epidemiology are a far better place to begin for reasonably realistic and tractable modelling and prediction of epidemics.