Lp cleaning - scrubbing records - any downside?

I just don't understand this, Siltrains. Maybe it's because I use a Nitty Gritty rather than a VPI, but I have MAJOR static electricity problems and the use of the RCM will alleviate them on any newly cleaned record. Sometimes (in very dry weather), it's the only thing that works.

Static electricity is a science that stymies me, and have a hard time fully understanding just how it works, and why it affects people living in certain areas, and oddly, doesn't substantially affect those in others?

As an example, I now live in the desert southwest, New Mexico. Here, it is a very dusty envoirnment, a car dosn't stay clean for 12 hours, it has a patina of dust. Often very windy as well. Same with the house, it is a 24/7 job of keeping things clean, and within a couple of days, you can take your finger, and write on any piece of furniture.

Realtive Humidity today here was 11%, and weather at times is so dry, that it creates horrible skin problems, itching, dry skin. I've read reports years ago about CD Players getting fried in this type of climate.

Yet, I've never had any major issues with static. Of course after I pull an LP off my 16.5, I'll see a few particles of dust wish to cling to the LP, but nothing major, nor not to the point where it's affecting LP Playback, or getting shocks everytime I touch an Audio Rack, etc.

I had more a problem with static shocks when I lived in Chicago. Usually, in the dead of winter, in extreme cold, with very low relative indoor humidity.

Wish I could explain why some others have greater problems than I?

I used to on occasion have to wet mop an LP when I lived in Chicago, with a small LAST Cleaning Brush Pad, and LAST All Purpose to reduce the static "magnetic" effect of dust quickly clinging to LP on the Platter. Here, it seems I hardly have these issues, and usually just use the Hunt EDA, or AQ Carbon Fiber Brush before play. Mark

Readers: The scrubbing LPs does not imply pressure. Heavy pressure against the grove is not what you want. I personally use extremely soft shower brushes and gently ever so gently "scrub" the LP surface following the grove from the outside in and reverse w/ fluid of choice. And I also steam clean.