I didn't miss a paycheck when I got Covid. I stayed in my bedroom, hopped on zoom when needed, and slept through the boring meetings. Zero financial impact on my family. There's a lot of folks in my workplace who did/will miss paychecks due to contracting Covid. We might have gotten sick at the same meeting, had the same symptoms, but the effects on ourselves and our families could be significantly different.

Whether or not a company should have a DEI office is a different debate, but it isn't absurd for a DEI person to see Covid as highlighting inequity. I don't think they should be setting covid policy, but encouraging relatively inexpensive and painless steps to mitigate the spread of any infection that might cause people to miss work could be in their lane.