Can an actor impersonate a virus?

In Alex van Warmerdam's film Abel, Abel asks a guest why she likes to act.

"I like to impersonate another person", she replies.
"Can you impersonate objects instead of persons?"
"Objects?"
"Can you impersonate a potato?"
"No, I can’t."
"I think you could impersonate a potato very well."

In Alex van Warmerdam’s imagination, an actor can play anything. A dog for instance. Van Warmerdam played a dog in his film De laatste dagen van Emma Blank. Or the protagonist in a novel, who complains to his writer about his story so far, begging to experience something fun, (Ober).
Having seen Borgman, I don’t think it’s far fetched to suppose that Van Warmerdam toyed with the idea of actors impersonating a virus and other actors impersonating the body that gets infected and ultimately killed. Does this make sense to anyone?