The Dark Winter script according to Electronic Arts

"Dark Winter"-based game. EA describes everything!!! This video was posted June 10, 2013

Tom Clancy's The Division - E3 Breakdown trailer [UK]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8LLVLJd-WM

Then this video about the sequel posted on November 23, 2019:

Could The Division Story Actually Happen? || Story / Lore || The Division 2 (16:17)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A-n9lzbwDo

>UPDATE: 18 Mar 2020

>For those of you who didn't notice, I made this video a month or two before the COVID-19 outbreak, >and at the time had no relation to what was about to become.

>It was just unfortunate timing on my part.

>I apologise to those of you who have been upset by the content of this video, given the current

>climate.

>But this scenario has a few considerable differences, including a mortality rate of around 90% - >where COVID-19 is sitting at 3.4% according to WHO (at the time of writing this).

>More importantly, this video is based on a game.

>Stay safe people!

>- Joe

They all knew. They're all in on it.