Deaths on Friday in the U.S. were at 2,056 with 870,702 new cases and 21,946 critical or serious cases (updated numbers). When Delta peaked, I think we had closer to 3,500 deaths a day. Once we hit 20,000 severe cases, our hospitals are pretty much full. I think it's too early to say this is a milder strain. This is a weekend, when fewer cases get reported. Come Monday or Tuesday, we'll start seeing how bad things really are and politicians will start freaking out and come up with whatever they can think of to try to help, which may make things worse. I'd expect takeout/drive-thru only to start again for restaurants, "non-essential" business closures, work from home orders, and (hopefully not, but possibly) lockdowns. I suggest planning to spend less time away from home for the next month.
We know now that Covid is treatable if you take care of it early before it causes breathing problems. With the hospitals overrun, treatment will get triaged or rationed depending on need. This means that people will not get treatment until it's too late for it to be effective, and more people may die because of that. When the hospitals have room to take in patients, you don't see that many deaths. When they only take care of people when it's too late, that's when you see the bodies piling up.