Fully agree with your second paragraph but your first paragraph is nonsense.

We have evidence that Delta has a much larger viral load and that it has outcompeted the Alpha variant everywhere in the world. You have to be in total denial to pretend the Delta variant might have been no more transmissible than Alpha.

I said it spread faster at one point in time, what is different than what you said?

Imagine delta and alpha are both introduced in a naive population at the exact same time. Which one will spread faster? No one has a clue

You've seemingly reduced 'Delta is more transmissible' to its most meaningless interpretation.

A large (mostly) unvaccinated and uninfected population has been exposed to both variants and the delta variant won out, what more proof do you want?

Delta will spread faster. We know this from seeing it spread in countries that have low vaccination rates and easily outcompete other variants. This can also be seen in laboratory experiments.

Delta since it outcompeted Alpha everywhere in the world.

I don't think it can be called normal when hospitals are near capacity in some states (e.g. CO).

ICUs being near capacity is actually very normal, especially during flu season.

Zero availability in half the state?

Yeah that's definitely worse than normal. Though not wildly out of the norm either. A significant fraction typically are diverting to ICUs at other hospitals, but normally not half the hospitals.