Is it fair to compare these disasters? The people affected are different, the extent is different, the political environment and response is different, NGO and military response is different, the media response and coverage is drastically different, the interpersonal connections are different (millions of Haitians in Canada / USA), the geography is different (Haiti is almost in our backyard)... etc etc That's just a small percentage of the differences. I don't think it's possible to compare the two. They are both awful, that's for sure. It doesn't excuse the relatively poor response to Burma, but it does go a long way to explain the differences IMO. Or something like that.