[1rudeboy]

I've been pondering why some people are still being pulled from the rubble alive (but barely).

Is it because Haitians are more likely to have suffered hardship? (I mean, not like being buried under tons of rubble, but still).

[Daisyjane69]

I’ve wondered that, too. And your idea has some merit.

The other thing is, I could swear that when Turkey had that terrible earthquake a few years ago, they found people alive after 2 weeks.

I should check on that, but that notion is stuck in my mind, somehow.

[Hot Tabasco]

Is it because Haitians are more likely to have suffered hardship?

The tent cities that are now being erected are probably accomodations that exceed what many of them had prior to the disaster.

To people in these impoverished third world countries and below, survival is a daily way of life for them. They are far better equipped to deal with this mentally than you or I.