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Odd. Risk Managers comes in demand when the risk (of a pandemic) becomes a problem.

The best risk manager in the world cannot solve this problem for you. You should have had a risk manager years ago who ensured proper risk scenarios and business continuity plans to match to ensure the business performed as well as possible even during a pandemic (or a financial crisis or a trade war or a market disruption or …).

My guess is, that many executives and boards now see the value of having a risk management function - but also that they will gradually downplay and reduce this as years (to come go by without any new crisis. That element is called "value engineering" and is based on the ignorance that "nothing bad will happen to us, it hasn't lately"