Options for ridding records of static electricity

Daveyf, many preferences are a result of mythology which is admittedly hard to combat. If you don't mind dust on your records, don't use a dust cover. I got rid of all my Linns a long time ago because they are irreparably defective. 
Lewm, in order to transfer electrons from your hand to the record there has to be intimate contact. You have to rub your hand firmly back and forth across the record, a maneuver I can see you doing on a regular basis. Remember rubbing your feet on the carpet so you could shock your brother? Don't use the sweep arm. Destroy your records. Why should I care. 

I wish I’d had a brother.
But I do have a nice dust free sister.
if your body is charged all you have to do is touch the LP. The LP is like your unsuspecting brother. You don’t even pay attention to your own analogies.

By the way, you're not the only one who does this, Mijo, but this concept of taking the contact patch area of a stylus tip and typical VTF and from that extrapolating to the pressure in PSI is a specious way to think about the stress on the vinyl, in my opinion.  Why not extrapolate to the surface area of the LP, instead of to a square-inch?  In which case, there is about a million pounds of pressure per LP surface area (estimating that the surface area of a 12-inch LP is about 100 square inches and assuming your own estimate of 10,000 PSI is correct).  Wonder what that would do to record wear.

@mijostyn  "I got rid of all of my Linns a long time ago because they are irreparably defective"

Your post is timely, because I was talking to my Linn dealer yesterday and he related an interesting story. On one of the other forums, there was a chap who was telling everyone that the Linn LP12 was way past its prime, it was always falling out of tune, and was impossible to not only work on but was easily bested in SQ by any new turntable today. My dealer was curious about this guy and so after some back and forth PM’s with him, it was discovered that the poster had last owned a Linn LP12 in 1979, had always set up the table himself and had on occasion swapped out arms, to include a SME 309 and also a arm which he couldn’t remember, but it was heavy and worked well on his later tables. Lastly, the fellow told my dealer that he had heard the Linn recently, which to him was back in 2000! Nonetheless, this chap was 100% sure that his new Technics direct drive from 1980 was easily better than his 1979 Linn. After all, the darned screws were loctighted on the Linn and he couldn’t ever get them loose when he was taking his table apart…

I have NEVER heard of a Linn that was "irreparably defective" only an owner who had no clue how to set it up and refused to allow a qualified Linn dealer to work on it....were you one of those folks??--:0)

Well he was certainly right about the Linn sounding better than the direct drive. Daveyf, I did not say that the Linn could not sound good, it can. I said that it is irreparably defective which it is. The plinth is poorly constructed, you can twist it in your hands. The suspension is poorly damped and unstable because of it's geometry. The sub chassis sits on its springs like an old AR instead of being hung from them like an SME or SOTA. The ONLY advantage it had (over the AR) was at least you could mount the tonearm of your choice. Now they are trying to take that away as well.
The Linn has long outlived it's usefulness there are too many well designed tables for the money. Plus you said it sounds bad with it's dust cover down. That is certainly a problem I could not live with.
And Daveyf, you'll have to trust me on this one. I can set up a turntable way better than your dealer can. I have much better tools.