(Hugh Carey, Special to The Colorado Sun) We are following county guidelines, but we took it a step further with these thermal scans.” The Lodge Casino customers line up in front of the entrance door of the building on Wednesday morning June 17, 2020, in Black Hawk. There were hour-long waits to get in the casinos. “I wish we could have opened earlier, too, but we were able to learn from the casinos in Vegas and these temperature stations was one of the things we learned,” he says early Wednesday as the machine swiftly scanned the line of dozens in less than a minute. An army of bottle-toting employees sprayed and wiped surfaces with abandon. The table games were vacant, per rules issued by Colorado public health officials. Inside the casino, every other machine was dark, allowing players to remain separated. If a person was running hot, they were asked to step aside and rest for a moment before repeating the scan. The line moved quickly, thanks to a thermal scanning camera inside the door at The Lodge, which relayed every visitor’s face and body temperature to a computer screen. “We are going through withdrawals and we are ready to get back and play,” says Colleen, who joined her mom among dozens of antsy gamblers waiting for The Lodge Casino to open at 8 a.m.

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