And an army marches on its stomach, therefore she should spend more time cooking for them. A municipal clerk is quite capable of handling the sanitation issues of even a city like Tar Valon. As the son of a borough councilman who headed a sewer committee, I can't give any credence to Egwene's position. Shit happens, literally in this case, and the garbage piling up in Tar Valon is a long term problem. The problem with a health professional's analysis is that he has a hammer and so sees everything as a nail. A practical leader or administrator knows that when someone has declared war on you - a formidable someone, if you Egwene-apologists are to be believed - garbage pick-up can wait until you have dealt with the potential attack by a Great Captain, and turned your attention to the shape of the world vis a vis their readiness to take on the Last Battle.

A more appropriately analogous dialogue would go:
Captain Edward J Smith: All right, what's status on the iceberg situation?
Egwene: That can wait. How dare you let the arrangements for the deck chairs be neglected so badly? This calls for a mutiny!