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As much of eastern Australia was settling in for another Friday night in lockdown earlier this month, an unlikely prescription drug importation ring popped up in a dark corner of the internet. "Hi all!," wrote Gabz, a user on Telegram – the encrypted messaging app that has become a haunt for anti-lockdown protesters and COVID-19 vaccination sceptics during the pandemic. It was 6:10pm on October 1, and Gabz had just created a Telegram channel called "IM Packs" for people in Sydney interested in sourcing the unproven coronavirus treatments Ivermectin and Doxycycline. "Please take note this is a private group and...