You do know that lifting a mask mandate does NOT mean that you can no longer wear a mask. You can wear a mask for the next 50 years if you want to. Nothing is stopping you.
And if Texas is doing this for the money then what is Mississippi's excuse? Could it be that masks have always been just a complete waste of time and money? They have done zero to stop the spread. And in states and places around the world where masks were more strongly enforced, the cases of COVID were higher than in places that don't have such strong restrictions.