CNN News:新冠肺炎疫情下 机器人推销电话数量减少

CARL AZUZ, cnn 10 ANCHOR: An interesting side effect that the global coronavirus pandemic — robocalls are down. And we're not hearing too many complaints about that. Welcome to cnn 10. I'm Carl Azuz.
Any phone call that features a recorded message instead of an actual person is a robocall. It could be a reminder to make a payment, refill a prescription or vote for a political candidate. It could be an illegal attempt to sell you something or to scam you out of money for things like fake coronavirus tests. But with international call centers shutdown because of COVID-19 and with governments trying to prevent scams related to the disease, robocalls dropped 40 percent between February and April according to a U.S. robocall prevention service.

But the head of YouMail says he expects a lot of these calls to be ringing again by the end of the summer as social distancing rules are relaxed and businesses come back online. There's a lot of tension in the United States and beyond about when, where and how to reopen areas that have been shutdown.
Businesses that have seen zero revenue for six weeks or more have still had to pay their rent and taxes and some have continued to pay their employees. People who've been laid off haven't been able to earn a living and they have bills of their own that are stacking up.
On the other side of that are concerns that allowing stores to reopen too soon and allowing people to gather in large numbers again could lead to more coronavirus cases and deaths. So there's no one clear answer that economists, health officials and workers agree on when it comes to lifting lockdowns.