Cough into a tissue and then bin it....how many tissues can one person reasonably carry? If you're coughing every couple of minutes?

[turkeyontheplate]

Sorry, I may be descending into paranoid overthinking here

I have "a cough". No fever, just a bit of an under the weather feeling. Under the new rules, I'm supposed to stay in the house and stay 2 metres away from my family members. The 2 metres thing is pretty facile, as the studies I've seen from China etc suggest that the virus can travel in the air a good deal further than that - but OK, we'll follow the NHS advice. So when I cough, am I supposed to cough into a tissue and bin it, every single time? I would be getting through an entire rainforest every couple of hours . What about people who are out and about, who suddenly acquire a cough? Is everybody supposed to carry a sack of tissues around with them?

You don't need to worry about how many tissues to carry while out. You should be self isolating

You don't need to worry about how many tissues to carry while out. You should be self isolating
^this, with bells on

Yes, I realise that, and I am. But people WILL be out and about when they start coughing, won't they? People, with the best will in the world, will cough in public.