I've found this topic pretty interesting, and I've enjoyed trying my hand at it myself. One of the things I've been playing with is Insight Maker https://insig

I've found this topic pretty interesting, and I've enjoyed trying my hand at it myself. One of the things I've been playing with is Insight Maker https://insightmaker.com/ https://insightmaker.com/ This site is a totally free platform where you can set up the kinds of simulations this article describes (stock and flow models). You can even specify your uncertainty in your baseline assumptions and run sensitivity analysis to see what the relative impact of each factor is on the model, and the range of potential outputs you could have. This system is very much like https://www.getguesstimate.com/ https://www.getguesstimate.com/, except much more flexible and way less intuitive. Insight maker isn't a professional tool, it's really more of an advocacy and outreach platform, but despite that it's really quite powerful. I think after you've read this article and internalized the difficulties in modeling pandemics (and have re-affirmed to yourself that you are not an epidemiologist, unless you are, more power to you if so), you might have some fun trying to build the model this article describes.