We are in the midst of a pandemic that continues to spread where people are afraid not only of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but also of the disruptive and fear inducing side effects associated with the public health measures that have been put into place. While Newton?s Laws of Motion provide the scientific basis for the effectiveness of face masking, social distancing, and self-isolating to curtail viral spread, these physics-based approaches are pretty much the same as those taken 100 years ago when nobody even knew what a virus was.