Switch CI to focal
..and also update yaml.load to use SafeLoader as the default triggers a deprecation warning on focal per https://msg.pyyaml.org/load
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..and also update yaml.load to use SafeLoader as the default triggers a deprecation warning on focal per https://msg.pyyaml.org/load